Languages of the World

Contents

• Theories of the appearance of languages
• Language Family
• Languages Hit list
• Sign Language
• Quiz
• Bibliography

Language is the clothes of thoughts S. Johnson

Theories of the appearance of the language Why can people communicate with the help of the language? How has the language appeared ?

• Evolution theory
• Imitation theory
• Intellectual theory
• Mutation theory
• Sign language theory
• Creation theory

Evolution theory

Author:

Charles Darwin

An inescapable result of the evolution of Homo Soupiness

Imitation theory

Author: Susan Blackmore

The Meme Machine ”

Language appeared due to imitation of the sounds of nature

Intellectual Theory

Author:

Dwight Bolinger

The appearance of language is the result of the intellect development .

Mutation theory

The appearance of language is the result of an incident mutation of the DNK code

Sign language theory

The most popular up-to-date theory.

First appeared sign language, as the result of the evolution.

Creation theory

1In the beginning was the Word,

and the Word was with God,

and the Word was God.

2He was with God in the b eginning.

Task

Think of some words similar in English and Russian.

Example:

Eng . Go

Russ. Бегом, гон, гнать.

A Tower of Babel How many languages are there in the world?

4.000 – 6.000

English             ten Dutch               tien German           zehn Danish, Norw.   ti Swedish           tio

Language Genealogy Tree

• Nostratic
• Congo-Saharan
• Austric
• Sino-Caucuses
• Australian
• Indo-Pacific
• Languages of American Indians
• Ancient
• Isolates

Language Genealogy Tree

Nostratic

Southern-Caucasian

Indo-European

Afro-Asian

Slavonic

German

Eastern-Slavonic

Northern-German

Russian

English

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languages Hit List

1 Mandarin Chinese 874 ,000,000

2 Hindi (India) 366 ,000,000

3 English 341 ,000,000

4 Spanish 322-358 ,000,000

5 Bengali (India and Bangladesh) 207 ,000,000

6 Portuguese 176 ,000,000

7 Russian 167 ,000,000

8 Japanese 125 ,000,000

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Languages of the world

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Sign Language

Yes or No?

O.K . !

Super!

Don’t worry!

Just smile!

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Quiz

1. How many languages are there in the world?

a) 4.000 – 6.000 b) 1.000 – 1500 c) 200 – 250

2. Who is the author of the evolution theory?

a) Susan Blackmore b) Bwight Bolinger c) Charls Darwin

3. Mutation theory says that the appearance of the language is the result of

a) an incident mutation of the DNA code b) the evolution

c) the mutation of monkeys

4. What language is spoken by the most number of people?

a) Japanese b) Mandarin Chinese c) English

5. To what super-family does The Russian language belong?

a) Ancient b) Indo-Pasific c) Nostratic

6. What language was created by Charles Darwin?

a) Imitation theory b) evolution theory c) creation theory

7. How many people speak Russian?

a) 125.000,000 b) 207.000,000 c) 167.000,000

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Bibliography

• http:/language.babaev.net/
• http:/homewanadoo.nl/arjebolhuis/language-familytrees/
• http:/www.triadna.ru/dictionary/lang-map.htm