What was the original language?
The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Second Edition - E.M. Rickerson
Barry Hilton [+ ]
Independent Scholar
Barry Hilton is a freelance writer/editor and independent scholar living in Maine. He was a member of the editorial board that reviewed the radio scripts on which The 5 Minute Linguist was based. He has travelled and lived in both Europe and Asia, making professional use of Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, French, and German in a variety of jobs. He describes himself as an "armchair philologist and recovering polyglot."
Description
The chapter presents the opinions of various researchers regarding the emergence of language. Thus, studies of historical linguists, paleontologists, anatomists as well as multidisciplinary efforts are considered in order to explore the way in which the earliest language functioned.