Invention Hypotheses

The thread of common belief that language is a gift to human kind runs through many societies. The most elementary of those beliefs paints a picture of Adam giving names to all living creatures, which also includes the belief that humans have an inborn ability to use language (Vajda). This establishes the fact that languages can’t be separated from human society. Every clan or tribe which existed had some equivalence in languages that existed like English, Latin or Greek. These not only included their expressive potential but grammatical complexity too. Technologies work differently form language, as technologies are complex or simple but language isn’t. Charles Darwin pointed to the above fact that he stated which concerned languages. The

It states that if humans didn’t have the divine gift or evolution then how would have they devised the first language? There are other hypotheses as to how language might have been invented by humans on the basis of a primitive system of hominid communication. Each hypothesis was based on the idea that the invention of language and its gradual refinement served as a continuous stimulus to additional human mental development. However, most linguists believe that the origin of language is still a mystery. But the inventive, sarcastic names given these hypotheses by their critics prove that even linguists can at times be creative.

There are four imitation hypotheses which state that language began through some First, there are four imitation hypotheses that hold that language began through some sort of human mimicry of naturally occurring sounds or

Here are several necessity hypotheses of the invention of language:

1) Warning hypothesis: According to this hypothesis, language arose in the very act of warning someone against some danger or a stimulus to it. It also may have evolved from warning signals like Look out, Run, or Help to alert members of the tribe when some lumbering beast was approaching. In other words, the first words were indexes used during everyday activities and situations.

2) The "yo-he-ho" hypothesis: Language developed on the basis of human cooperative efforts. The earliest language was chanting to simulate collective effort, whether moving great stones to block off cave entrances from roving carnivores or repeating warlike phrases to inflame the fighting spirit.

It is also true that the first poetry and song came from the aspect of beginning speech. Songs of this type are still prevailing: Volga boatmen, military marching chants, seven dwarfs working song. Plato’s belief that language developed out of sheer practical necessity is also in unison with the above stated hypothesis. As the saying goes ‘Necessity is the mother of invention.’ Speech and right hand coordination are both controlled in the left hemisphere of the brain. Therefore, it could be a possible clue that manual deftness and the need to communicate developed were in