Language is an excellent indicator of one's community. A very small amount of languages belong to any one community, and sometimes one language is the main language of several communities. Either way, language is part of what makes us human. Language is the biological aspect of being human. People have been speaking for almost as long as our species has existed, but written language is a separate matter entirely. Written language in any form has only existed for several thousand years, which is minuscule compared to the massive amount of time language in itself has existed.
The origin of language is very obscure. Almost no one knows where the very first language came from. The only theory of the beginning of language that exists is that communicating with hands became too complicated, and produced sounds began to have meaning.
Children also have an innate ability to learn a language without being taught it by their parents. But after very early childhood, learning a second language is very difficult. Acquisition and usage of a language seems to be a human instinct.
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