3 different languages on crayons? Come on !!?
As I walk through the baby isles I notice that everything has different languages on it, this is getting out of control. Am I the only one who things the United States should speak ENGLISH? and only english?? There should be no second language, I understand people come to this country from others but I belive that if you want to be here you should speak english, that should be a rule to get here? Does anyone else agree with me? I am not looking for rude answers, so if thats what your going to put save it. I just want resonalbe discussion about why everything is printed in 3 different languages, its getting to be a crock. I have no problem with imigration as long as it is done leagaly and the correct way, but I do think we should have some rules that people need to go by and stick with them. Oh and the reason this is posted in the pregnancy section is because i am 31 weeks pregnant and would like other new mom's opinions on the subject. Thanks
How were different languages created across the world? Since we're all humans, shouldn't all languages be generally the same?
This has nothing to do with biological evolution. It has to do with time and how fast languages change.Lucy lived 3.2 million years ago. She was from a group that is before humans. We don’t know how much language she had. Physically modern humans are between 200,000 and 100,000 years old. All of those modern humans spoke languages. They were just like us. Perhaps, relatives before that did too.Unless a language is written down and people study the old versions, languages change very, very fast. So fast that it can’t be understood. Unless you study it, one cannot understand Old English. It is a foreign as German. The same goes for Old Japanese. Or almost any other language. Old English is only 1,300 years old. Linguists think they can reconstruct parts proto languages that are about 3,000 years old or a little more and are the ancestors of modern ones. But one could not understand anything of those languages.So, the answer to your question is about time depth and speed of language change. 1,300 years goes into 100,000 years 76 times. It goes 153 times into 200,000 years. So, if we cannot understand almost anything of a language from 1,300 years ago, imagine how different it would be if it was 76 times more different that today. It is too long ago.Now, some linguists believe there are underlying structures in common with all human languages and that shows how our brains are all genetically similar. But, with 100,000 years of change there can not be any similarities on the surface. As for 3.2 million years, the time and change are ridiculously huge.If we wanted to leave a message to people who would be alive in 5,000 years we could not do it. They would need many of the steps in the changes in between to figure it out. So, that we have more than 7,000 languages in the world says much about how fast and relentlessly languages change. But it says nothing about biological evolution.
How do you say daniel in different languages other than english?
We have a corresponding name written as Danyel or Danyal in Turkish.
A question about the Korean language?
Korean has an alphabet with signs having the value of a sound Very much like the Latin alphabet. When writing these signs are grouped in syllables. e.g. h=ㅎ; g,k=ㄱ; n= ㄴ; a=ㅏ; u=ㅜ; eo=ㅓ;ㅇ=marker for syllable beginning with a vowel 한국어 = han guk eo meaning the Korean language. The alphabet was devised in the late 15-th century. Until then they wrote with Chinese characters pronouncing them in Korean. There are some reminiscences of that as sometimes they mix in Chinese characters but very seldom. Except calligraphers and scientists no one learns thousands of characters but only the 30 odd letters. You can learn to read Korean in a couple of hours. The grammar though... Chinese is written only in hanzi (Chinese characters) with the standard set counting 1945 signs. They have simplified the writing unlike the Japanese which besides the signs called Kanji use two other sets of characters with the value of a syllable (syllabary) Hiragana for Japanese words and Katakana for foreign words (other than Chinese). No matter how similar they look in writing to the American or European eye they are three different languages. There is a certain level of understanding between Chinese and Japanese but only when reading as when they are spoken they are quite different. If you want a comparison, they are like English and French which are written with (almost) the same characters and occasionally same words but still are quite different. I hope I helped.