Timeline for Would it be possible for an Earth-sized world to speak a single language?
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| Apr 20 at 1:08 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Sep 19, 2018 at 1:25 | answer | added | Muze | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 9, 2018 at 1:51 | comment | added | RonJohn | "with maybe few dialects (like American English and British English)" and Indian English, and Pakistani English and Malay English and Jamaican English, and Ebonics, and Radically Tubular English, dude, for sure!! | |
| May 28, 2015 at 13:33 | answer | added | ninesided | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 27, 2015 at 17:54 | comment | added | Randy Minder | You need to read your Bible. The world used to speak a single language until God decided this wasn't good and confused their languages (created new ones) and scattered the people. Genesis 11:5-8. Languages, like humans, didn't just evolve. God created humans and created their languages. | |
| May 27, 2015 at 8:38 | answer | added | Mike Scott | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 26, 2015 at 20:23 | history | protected | James | ||
| May 26, 2015 at 20:10 | answer | added | Jeremiah Payne | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 26, 2015 at 18:36 | answer | added | dthree | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 26, 2015 at 17:44 | answer | added | Patric Hartmann | timeline score: 7 | |
| May 26, 2015 at 15:15 | answer | added | Mason Wheeler | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 26, 2015 at 14:26 | answer | added | Paul | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 26, 2015 at 13:23 | answer | added | Jax | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 26, 2015 at 13:00 | history | edited | ArtOfCode |
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| May 26, 2015 at 12:59 | history | unprotected | ArtOfCode | ||
| May 26, 2015 at 9:19 | history | edited | user |
The evolution tag is for biological evolution, not language changing over time
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| S May 26, 2015 at 9:14 | answer | added | Jatin Nagpal | timeline score: 2 | |
| S May 26, 2015 at 9:14 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
| May 25, 2015 at 23:37 | answer | added | Michael Shaw | timeline score: 8 | |
| May 25, 2015 at 23:35 | answer | added | King Friday | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 25, 2015 at 22:24 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | I think an edit needs to be made to define what a "single language" means. Perhaps a better phrasing is "people speak sufficiently similar that any individual can understand the speech of any other individual, if both parties want to?' | |
| May 25, 2015 at 22:13 | comment | added | iabw | An important point missing from the question and answers is that languages tend to break apart by social striations as much as geographical ones. Age, profession, wealth and slang can have a huge effect on the nature of communication, and then these differences evolve over time. So even if everyone speaks the same language at some point in time, they might not 20 generations later unless some force is keeping them cohesive. This is how the modern language diaspora occurred, and it's yet to be fully seen how technological advancements will affect this historical fact. | |
| May 25, 2015 at 21:07 | answer | added | rdtsc | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 25, 2015 at 21:07 | answer | added | Rolazaro Azeveires | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 25, 2015 at 20:16 | answer | added | hyde | timeline score: 10 | |
| May 25, 2015 at 19:11 | answer | added | Twelfth | timeline score: 12 | |
| May 25, 2015 at 18:04 | comment | added | n611x007 | also while the many languages may "waste time" they give this diversity, like things you find in idioms, etc. maybe a long time ago there was a single language and it was a state so boring that people started to invent other languages. | |
| May 25, 2015 at 18:01 | comment | added | n611x007 | just view it like you already have a single language, say eg. human speech, with a few dialects, like those thousands of "languages". maybe all the languages are just dialects of an old language + a very long time to diverge... | |
| May 25, 2015 at 17:57 | answer | added | Ville Niemi | timeline score: 24 | |
| May 25, 2015 at 17:06 | answer | added | Cascadiahawk | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 25, 2015 at 15:56 | comment | added | o.m. | Are you asking about a species which had no more than one language (at a time) during its evolution, or about a civilization which evolves in a way that there is just one language? There can be multiple civilizations across the history of a species. | |
| May 25, 2015 at 15:41 | answer | added | Ewout Willems | timeline score: 50 | |
| May 25, 2015 at 15:26 | history | asked | Paul92 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |