All the languages ​​of the world come from Africa

The homeland of all the languages ​​of the world have established linguists, tracing their evolution from the very beginning. This is the language has become one of the factors that forced our ancestors settled on the planet, writes ScienceNOW.

Usually, scientists recreate the ancient words by studying the evolution of language. However, this method only allows to track changes by 6, 5 th. Years ago. New Zealand psychologist Quentin Atkinson of the University of Auckland took another method. He traced the changes of phonemes - linguistic units, which allow to distinguish one word from another. Scientist analyzed 504 languages ​​around the world, has built a number of models show that numerically small peoples of the phoneme less diverse than those that litter.

It was found that the greatest variety of phonemes present in the languages ​​of the peoples of Africa and the least - the inhabitants of the Americas and Oceania. According to scientists, this proves that the cradle of all languages ​​was southeast of the Black Continent and the New World and Pacific Islands people settled after all. According to Atkinson, the migration of people from Africa began 50 - 70 thousand. Years ago. An important impetus for this was precisely the development of language.

In addition, the survey revealed a wide variety of phonemes among the peoples of Southeast Asia. According to scientists, this is evidence that the population in the region grew rapidly.

Atkinson confirmed the hypothesis of genetic research. Differences in gene also depends on the population. The maximum genetic diversity found just at the people of Africa.

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