1. Languages

2. Where did our language come from?
Probably started as a simple way of communicating between primitive humans to coordinate hunting, alert each other to danger, etc about 2 million years ago.
As humans spread across the globe, different groups developed different words and sounds.
There may be 5,000-7,000 languages on Earth, but some are extinct.

3. Types of languages Oral (spoken, signed) Written
(With alphabets, symbols, characters, hieroglyphs, braille, etc)

4. Major Language Families
Indo-European
Afro-Asiatic
Sino-Tibetan
Niger-Congo

5. Major Language Families
Afro-Asiatic: Arabic, Somali, Hebrew, Amharic, Tuareg
Sino-Tibetan: The various Chinese dialects, Burmese, Tibetan

6. Major Language Families
Niger-Congo: Many various languages of Sub-Saharan Africa
Indo-European: Romance, Hellenic, Celtic, Germanic, Slavic, Indo-Iranian

7. Indo-European Languages
Probably started in between Europe and Asia, and spread into western Europe and India, evolving into related languages in different regions
Explorers and settlers eventually spread these languages into Australia, North America, and South America

10. Alphabets: Each sound is represented by a letter, which are combined to make words.
Latin Alphabet

11. Cyrillic (Russian) Alphabet
Alphabets: Each sound is represented by a letter, which are combined to make words.
Cyrillic (Russian) Alphabet

12. Alphabets: Each sound is represented by a letter, which are combined to make words.
Greek Alphabet

13. Alphabets: Each sound is represented by a letter, which are combined to make words.
Hebrew Alphabet

14. Alphabets: Each sound is represented by a letter, which are combined to make words.
Arabic Alphabet

15. Alphabets: Each sound is represented by a letter, which are combined to make words.
Sanskrit Alphabet

16. Chinese Korean Japanese
Characters: Each word is represented by a symbol, or combination of symbols
Chinese
Korean
Japanese