Fellow athiest I have a question?

As mankind migrated family groups became separated with natural boundaries. long term separation is conducive to family groups creating dialects which after a long period of time can become a different language. This has been reflected in studies on how the mind perceives and understands languages. The human brain learns by simplification and each of us perceive things differently. Separated family groups developed dialects a seen in most countries which eventually evolved in to different languages over a longer period of separation.

At one time a person was born, lived and died in the same village. You can see this commonly in countries where travel was difficult or illegal for a period of time and in this instance there is a distinct dialect developed by each location. Even in America you find people using different words for different purposes or words that are not used in other arias.

Given enough separation and time we would develop more languages but do to our current ability to move globally we are now seeing the introduction of foreign verbiage into the English and other languages. Soon we will all be speaking a "different" language than our great, great grand fathers spoke.

Think about it!

Disparate groups would have formed their own varieties of language, in fact, even english 600+ years ago was so different it would be unrecognizable to a modern english speaker.

There arent way too difference, overall all the western languages are a dumbed down versions of latin, same for the arabics and asian ones, althought l dont know from which protolanguage they decayed to respectively

Geographic isolation.

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