1. What was the original language?
Is there evidence you could use to prove how languages began?

2. What was the original language?
Is there evidence you could use to prove how languages began?
Can linguists use existing languages to find mother of all languages?

3. What was the original language?
Is there evidence you could use to prove how languages began?
Can linguists use existing languages to find mother of all languages?
Comparative reconstruction only goes back about 8000 years

4. What was the original language?
Two things needed to have language

5. What was the original language?
Two things needed to have language
A brain
A lowered larynx

6. What was the original language?
Do language ever just pop up out of thin air?

7. What was the original language?
Do language ever just pop up out of thin air?
Yes
Sign language in Nicaragua

8. What was the original language?
Do language ever just pop up out of thin air?
Yes
Sign language in Nicaragua
Constructed languages 11 min

9. What was the original language?
Language relationships exist

10. What was the original language?

11. What was the original language?
Who spoke Indoeuropean?

12. What was the original language?
Who spoke Indoeuropean?
What did they call their language?

13. What was the original language?
Who spoke Indoeuropean?
What did they call their language?
What inscriptions do we have?

14. What was the original language?
Who spoke Indoeuropean?
What did they call their language?
What inscriptions do we have?
How do we know the language existed?
What was their culture like?
What did the language sound like?

15. What was the original language?
Who spoke Indoeuropean?
What did they call their language?
What inscriptions do we have?
How do we know the language existed?
What was their culture like?
What did the language sound like?

16. What was the original language?
Indoeuropean was NOT the ancestor of all languages

17. What was the original language?
Indoeuropean was NOT the ancestor of all languages
There are many other language families

18. What was the original language?
Indoeuropean was NOT the ancestor of all languages
There are many other language families

19. What was the original language?
Can we tie all language families together?
People try

20. What was the original language?
Is some current language the one Adam spoke?

21. What was the original language?
Is some current language the one Adam spoke?
What did people think it was?
Problem is that we can reconstruct mother language