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Same O asked in Society & CultureLanguages · 1 decade ago

Would it ever be possibal to have a universal language.?

What if their was a single Original language that all languages came from. Can we still understand that language or not.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    No. Not even languages much closer to our own. We can learn to understand Shakespeare's English with a little practice, but even that's a struggle and that's only 400 years old.

    Here's a little Beowulf. That's Old English, about 1000 years old. Can you understand that?

    "Ða wæs on burgum Beowulf Scyldinga, leof leodcyning, longe þrage folcum gefræge (fæder ellor hwearf, aldor of earde), oþþæt him eft onwoc heah Healfdene; heold þenden lifde, gamol ond guðreouw, glæde Scyldingas. ðæm feower bearn forð gerimed..."

    Now imagine what language was the ancestor of this 1000 years before, or 10000, or 50000.

  • 1 decade ago

    Actually I think it's an interesting question. As the globalization progresses, perhaps people will evolve someday to have the same language and will inter-marry enough for just one race to emerge. I don't think it's impossible, but probably not very likely, at least not for a long time.

    In the meantime, I think the diversity of languages just contributes to the cultural richness of humanity, so it would be a pity to deprive ourselves of that.

    I don't know if there was an original language or not, given that homo sapiens has been in existance for about 350 thousand years, it would be difficult to determine for sure.

  • 1 decade ago

    No.

    Everyone now has their own languages which they know so it wouldn't be easy to get the whole world to use 1 language.

    We are just going to have to deal with it. By the way, its quite interesting everyone having different languages so we should keep them!

    Hope this helps!!

  • anna b
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    This was once tried I think.

    It was called something like Esperanto?????

    My grandmother did a play at school in this language, that is how I heard about it.

    She was born in 1918 and so this was maybe around 1930.

    Source(s): My Grandmother
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  • so
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    No - people like to be individual and at the same time feel a part of a certain group or feel like they belong to a certain region - that is why we have dialects and accents even when children learn one form of e.g. German at schools.

    Berlinisch is a good example is this - the Berliner working class have this German dialect and it is a form of solidarity.

  • 1 decade ago

    Nope. Hell, I don't even understand the languages I speak from a few hundred years ago- how should I understand that from thousands of years ago?

  • 1 decade ago

    Perhaps you should work on English before diving into the etymology of other languages.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    No only in heaven.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    would it be possible to have a universal religion?

    no - there's your answer

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