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2 unusual facts about Human language


Proto-human

Proto-Human language, a designation of the hypothetical most recent common ancestor of all the world's languages

Proto-Human language

In a 2003 paper, Murray Gell-Mann and Merritt Ruhlen argued that the ancestral language had subject–object–verb (SOV) word order.


Tumbuka language

The language of the Tumbuka people is called chiTumbuka — the chi- marker in front of Tumbuka means “thing”, “concept”, and is understood in this case “the language of (the Tumbuka people)”.


see also

Apptek

Applications Technology (AppTek) is a U.S. software company specializing in human language technology, headquartered in McLean, Virginia.

Iconicity

Derek Bickerton has posited that iconic signs, both verbal and gestural, were crucial in the evolution of human language.

Judith Klavans

From 2005 to 2013, Klavans was Director of Human Language Technology program at the Foreign Language Program Office of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) or DNI.

Recursion

The idea that recursion is an essential property of human language (as Chomsky suggests) is challenged by linguist Daniel Everett in his work Cultural Constraints on Grammar and Cognition in Pirahã: Another Look at the Design Features of Human Language, in which he hypothesizes that cultural factors made recursion unnecessary in the development of the Pirahã language.