A connection has been proposed between

language, tool-using and right-handedness in the

majority of humans. Is it possible that freedom
to use the hands, after assuming an upright
bipedal posture, resulted in certain skills that led
to the development of language? Why did we
assume an upright posture? What kind of
changes must have taken place in our hands?

General Linguistics
29/07/2020

IFE18849
Submitted by:
Muhammad Asif
submitted to:
Sir Noman
Roll No: IFE18849
Charles Darwin gave the theory
of evolution saying that human
beings evolved from a bi-pedal
posture. This is speculated so
because in tool-making process
the lips and the tongue which are
now used to produce language
were at first used to tear and
shred whereas grunts and groans
were known to be the early
development of language. A
similar development is believed
to have taken place with the
human hands and some believe
that manual gestures may have
been the precursor of language.
The innateness hypothesis
suggests that a crucial mutation
occurs in human beings over
time. The theory does not verify
when or where what mutation
occurred to cause the change but
it is surely related to our physical
changes when we are born and
throughout the adulthood how
our larynx lowers down allowing
the drop-box to lower down. In a
brief amount of time, the larynx
descends, the brain develops, the
child develops the up-right
posture and starts walking.

Q2: Why is it difficult to agree

with Psammetichus that
Phrygian ygian must have been
the original human language?
Answer: As far as Pharaoh
concluded that Phrygian, an old
language spoken in part of what
is modern Turkey, must be the
original language. But it’s
somehow not true. Because the
children may not have picked the
word from any human source.
As far it’s concerned the
language new born spoke could
be the contribution of other
outside voices like goats. The
children were only exposed to
goats and the word for bread
was close to the sound that goats
make.