How Did Language Start? (Did Someone Just Make Up the First Word?)
Description
How did language begin, and did someone actually invent the first word? In this episode of Explain It Like I’m 5, Alex unpacks one of humanity’s biggest mysteries: the origin of language.
From early grunts and gestures to full-blown grammar, we explore how humans evolved from pointing and miming to building vocabularies, writing systems, and even emojis.
You'll learn about theories like the Bow-Wow and Yo-He-Ho models, how language helped us survive and cooperate, why grammar makes human communication unique, and how babies mirror our evolutionary past by babbling their way into speech.
We also look at how emojis fit into the language puzzle, and why no one person invented the first word, it was a group effort, thousands of years in the making.
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