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Hello! In I will be discussing a common linguist theory called the "Proto-World Language." You may ask, "What is the PWL theory?" Well, it's a theory that suggests that, although some languages are 90%+ entirely made up, most languages come from a single language. Even though this may seem crazy, it is probably true - and more over, half the people in the world should also RELIGIOUSLY believe that this theory is correct. If you have a Bible at hand read Genesis 11. It says that God confused the language, not that He gave them entirely new ones.

From now on, though, the chances of new languages evolving much are slim because the reason why so many modern languages are so diverse is probably because Man has only been writing for about 5000 years, and without writing, over time, a language's phonetics would easily change, ESPECIALLY the vowel sounds. (If you listen closely to yourself say different vowel sounds, you'll notice that they can sound like each other - which would also explain how the Old English long æ eventually became the Modern English long a, and they don't even sound exactly the same.)

Let's look at the English word, "circumference" and see how much of a difference could be done after a language evolving three times:

Say each of the last words out loud. See how diverse they are? Well, most Modern languages have been derived from old, obsolete words at least four times - English itself can be traced back to at least ten languages, and showing that if the PWL theory is correct, 95% of all non-slang words came from that Proto-World Language (the other 5% came from slang of languages like Old Norse and Old French).

Now let's look at some REAL possible evidence of PWL:

Proto-Afro-Asiatic mlg 'suck, breast, udder'

Arabic m-l-j 'suck the breast'

Old Egyptian mndy 'woman's breast, udder'

Proto-Indo-European melg- 'to milk'

English milk 'to milk, milk'

Latin mulg-e:re 'to milk'

Proto-Finno-Ugric mälke 'breast'

Saami mielga 'breast'

Hungarian mell 'breast'

Tamil melku 'to chew'

Malayalam melluka 'to chew'

Kurux melkha: 'throat'

Central Yupik melug- 'to suck'

Proto-Amerind maliq'a 'to swallow, throat'

Halkomelem m@lqw 'throat'

Kwakwala m'lXw-'id 'chew food for the baby'

Kutenai u'mqolh 'to swallow'

Takelma mülk' 'to swallow'

Tfaltik milq 'to swallow'

Mixe amu'ul 'to suck'

Mohave malyaqe' 'throat'

Walapei malqi' 'throat, neck'

Akwa'ala milqi 'neck'

Cuna murki- 'to swallow'

Quechua malq'a 'throat'

Aymara malyq'a 'throat'

Iranshe moke'i 'neck'

Guamo mirko 'to drink'

Surinam e'mo:kï 'to swallow'

Faai mekeli 'nape of the neck'

Kaliana imukulali 'throat'

Hopefully you know enough about phonetics to notice a large resemblance in those words - not only that, but all of the English translations relate to breast feeding.

In reconstructing the Proto-World Language, let's suggest that the word is "mlka" (I'm going to use the Ancient Egyptian method of putting the sound of "e" into the middle of every two consonants unless noted otherwise, thus "mlka" would sound like "meleka"), and since the only thing they ALL have to do with is breast feeding, let's suggest that mlka meant to breast feed. ("Chewing" is probably derived from slang, or it could be derived from a language that say that word means "swallowing.")

Let's keep the following languages in mind for further studies:

Ancient Egyptian (Afro-Asiatic Source)

English (Indo-European Source)

Latin (Back-up)

Icelandic (Back-up)

Finnish (Finno-Ugric/Uralic Source)

Mandarin Chinese (Sino-Tibetan source)

Swahili (Niger-Kordofanian/Bantu source)

Why don't we try now to name this reconstructed language? Let's look for a connection in "speech."

Ancient Egyptian: isp.t "speech," "tongue" /isept/

English: speech /spItS/, language /lENguidZ/

Latin: lingua /lIngw@/ "language; tongue; speech"

Icelandic: rita /rIta/ "to write" (related to lingua, "l" is related to "r" and "t" and "d" are related, and "d" and "n" are related)

Finnish: sana /sana/ "word" (look at "isp.t" - "t" is often mistaken as "d", and sometimes in evolution, it becomes an "n," and the consonant cluster "sp" does not exist in Finnish - and apparently European languages put the vowel after the "p" instead of before)

Mandarin Chinese: shetou "tongue" (related to "isp.t")

Swahili: lugha /lugha/ "language; tongue" (related to lingua - "g" is the opposite of "ng")

By gathering this information, I declare that the word for "language" is s/pt /spet/

But what about "lingua, rita, and lugha?" Well, I'm actually going to assume, from Icelandic "rita" and Finnish "laatia" [to write], that there is a word for spoken language and for written language, but there was no written language back during Proto-World times, so it must mean "to draw." And judging by the four words, I'd say that the word is lga /lega/.

So three words so far!

TO BREAST FEED - mlka

TO DRAW - lga

LANGUAGE (particularly spoken) - s/pt

And why don't we call this language S/pt?

Also, before we go any further, I must assure you that REAL short words like "of" can go a long way in evolution and could logically end up as far away as "ðee" after only five evolutions.