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Originally Posted by Digging4Truth
This may not be the type of thing you guys like to talk about but I love this kind of thing. And I especially love that my kids think like this as well.
On the way to church my daughter posed a question.
She said... I wonder if there is a natural language that we would speak if we were not taught a language growing up?
Now that is a pretty good question.
I don't know how much it would resemble what we view as language but I have feeling that there would be some sort of language that would come to pass because we would find a way to communicate. We would find words or utterances to symbolize certain things and we would communicate in that manner.
She also wondered how much it would resemble our languages. I think it might have some occasional resemblances to at least the older languages because many languages have similar words for the same item although I am aware that often this is because one language adapts a word from another language.
Anyway... this is the type of thing I like to ponder.
Any thoughts?
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It would be an interesting experiment to place a group of monolingual people on a deserted island, with languages as different from each other as possible...Mandarin, Swahili, Russian, a native american indian...etc. And see how they learned to communicate.
Hey! Think I could make lots of money by pitching that as a reality show???
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