What was the first human language?

The Proto-Human language (also Proto-Sapiens, Proto-World) is the hypothetical direct genetic predecessor of all the world's spoken languages. It would not be ancestral to sign languages.
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How did humans start talking?

According to the ta-ta theory, humans made the earliest words by tongue movements that mimicked manual gestures, rendering them audible.
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Who was the first talking human?

Homo erectus: Early humans were able to speak and crossed sea on boats, expert claims.
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What language did cavemen speak?

It is called Proto-Indo-European and was spoken nearly 5,000 years ago!
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Who created language?

Who invented language? Language came about and evolved over time in order for humans to survive and develop. It was first invented and used by Homo sapiens, but researchers don't know exactly when. Language likely began somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 years ago.
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When We First Talked



Who created English?

Having emerged from the dialects and vocabulary of Germanic peoples—Angles, Saxons, and Jutes—who settled in Britain in the 5th century CE, English today is a constantly changing language that has been influenced by a plethora of different cultures and languages, such as Latin, French, Dutch, and Afrikaans.
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Who invented humans?

Homo sapiens

Anatomically modern humans emerged around 300,000 years ago in Africa, evolving from Homo heidelbergensis or a similar species and migrating out of Africa, gradually replacing local populations of archaic humans. For most of history, all humans were nomadic hunter-gatherers.
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Why can humans talk but not animals?

In short, animals don't have language because they don't have abstract thought and thus have neither the capacity nor the need for abstract designators—words as language. The difference between human language and animal symbols or signals is the difference between abstract thought and concrete thought.
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Why can't dogs talk to us?

Here's why. Dogs' brains cannot distinguish words that differ by a single speech sound, such as "sit" versus "set."
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Will dogs ever be able to talk?

This is how humans learn to speak so rapidly when they are young. Unfortunately, dogs are unable to understand these distinctions which makes it impossible for them to talk. Furthermore, it is unlikely that they will ever evolve into creatures with this ability, due to the role they play in nature and our lives.
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Can dogs understand humans?

The canine ability to comprehend human body language and intonation is amazing. Our dogs know more than just “Sit” or “Stay” or “Walk”. They can learn the meaning of many words and can grasp that meaning even better when we say those words in an appropriate tone.
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What color was the first human?

Color and cancer

These early humans probably had pale skin, much like humans' closest living relative, the chimpanzee, which is white under its fur. Around 1.2 million to 1.8 million years ago, early Homo sapiens evolved dark skin.
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What will humans look like in 1 million years?

Perhaps we will have longer arms and legs. In a colder, Ice-Age type climate, could we even become even chubbier, with insulating body hair, like our Neanderthal relatives? We don't know, but, certainly, human genetic variation is increasing.
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What language is English closest to?

The closest language to English is one called Frisian, which is a Germanic language spoken by a small population of about 480,000 people. There are three separate dialects of the language, and it's only spoken at the southern fringes of the North Sea in the Netherlands and Germany.
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Who created Spanish?

The language known today as Spanish is derived from a dialect of spoken Latin, which was brought to the Iberian Peninsula by the Romans after their occupation of the peninsula that started in the late 3rd century BC.
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Who was the first person to talk English?

The history of the English language really started with the arrival of three Germanic tribes who invaded Britain during the 5th century AD. These tribes, the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes, crossed the North Sea from what today is Denmark and northern Germany.
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Which is the first race in the world?

The San people of southern Africa, who have lived as hunter-gatherers for thousands of years, are likely to be the oldest population of humans on Earth, according to the biggest and most detailed analysis of African DNA.
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Will humans go extinct?

The scientific consensus is that there is a relatively low risk of near-term human extinction due to natural causes. The likelihood of human extinction through its own activities, however, is a current area of research and debate.
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Did all humans come from Africa?

Humans first evolved in Africa, and much of human evolution occurred on that continent. The fossils of early humans who lived between 6 and 2 million years ago come entirely from Africa. Most scientists currently recognize some 15 to 20 different species of early humans.
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Who has the most kids in the world?

The first wife of peasant Yakov Kirillov from the village of Vvedensky, Russia, gave birth to 57 children in a total of 21 births. She had four sets of quadruplets, seven sets of triplets and ten sets of twins.
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Who was the first white person born?

Snorri Thorfinnsson, born around 1010 in the Viking settlement of Vinland, was the first white child born in the Americas (excluding Greenland).
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What is the youngest baby born and survived?

World Record For Premature Birth Goes To Alabama Baby Born 19 Weeks Early. Curtis Means, now 16 months old, was awarded the Guinness World Record for youngest surviving premature birth, after only 132 days of gestation.
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What do dogs hear when we talk?

Your dog might not understand everything you say, but he listens and pays attention similar to the way humans do. The researchers discovered that dogs — like humans — respond not only to the words we say to them, but also to the emotional tone of our voices.
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Do dogs cry?

No. While canines express needs and wants vocally, there is no scientific evidence proving that dogs, or any other animals, in fact, actually produce tears as a response to what they're feeling. We seem to be the only species capable of breaking into emotional tears.
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