Why do people speak different languages? Who decided that in some languages, words should be gendered? Or that others need clicks as actual sounds? Or an article to be a useful word? Or that a single verb can contain a whole sentence's worth of information? Or that the best way to show respect is through an entirely separate hierarchical vocabulary? Or that a consonant as soft as a human breath should be an actual consonant? And worst of them all: how does ANYONE decide how to write a letter one way and not the other? Is there a deeper reason for all of this, or is it just random nonsense... The roll of a die in a cruel twist of fate?
>>18242975https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics
>>18242975Everyone should speak English.
>>18242975>Why do people speak different languages?Several reasons. One is mainly so you can know and appreciate a different culture other than your own and another is to understand conversations in that language learned.>why but philosophical bullshitWell according to Abrahamic Theology the tower of Babel created all languages.
>>18242975You're quite confused and need to restructure your inquiry one query at a time.It's very simple. Humans existed before language, and subsequent language use was intended to render the world utterable and communicable. Language does not exist in the world, so the ways to codify thoughts were arbitrary and thus subject to great variation amongst humans; especially considering that geography made collaboration and coordination toward linguistic uniformity between peoples impossible.Lingusitic features began as ad hoc solutions to many problems related to attempting to communicate with someone else.
Are you retardedDifferent tribes created different languages and modes of speaking between them it's not rocket science.
>>18243016 But are such choices arbitrary, or is there something about culture that made Chinese use tones, Xhosa use clicks, Polish and Welsh seem like abominations, and English seem like a primitive, simple language?
>>18243027Geography maybe? idk
>>18243027Lithuanian, Limburgish, and Serbo-Croatian also have tones.It's random.
>>18243030I believe tones = high IQ language substrates.
>>18242998As a southern fairy I can tell you the english spoken here is barely mutually intelligible. It's always easier to understand a foreigner than anyone from further north than Yorkshire.
>>18243011>the tower of Babel created all languages.and how did it end according to the legend?
>>18242975Because no one was successful enough to kill the speakers of all other languages yet.
The world used to only have one language until they tried building that big tower and God got mad.
>>18242975When groups of people are separated, their forms of speech gradually drift apart from each other. Think about how in Britain and America we speak English with different accents and use a few words differently. When those little bits of drift stack up gradually over many centuries, eventually the result is no longer recognizable as the same language.
>>18243258Everyone spread throughout the Earth in their own tribes.
Read Genesis 11:1-9
