Language: Constant changes

 Language: Constant changes

1. What is the biblical story of "the Tower of Babel"?

2. What does historical evidence tell us of this biblical event?

3. What's the relationship between genes and language?

4. Why do languages constantly change?

1. According to the bible, the early humans tried to challenge the power of the god, constructing a huge tower called 'the tower of Babel'. God, acting with anger punished the early humans by making them talk different languages, so communication wouldn´t be possible. This was a huge punishment because communication is an important tool for a lot of aspects in life.

2. All languages started and the developed according to the East Africa language. There are also evidences that all human population started living in Africa and trought time they traveled to other parts of the Earth. The tower of bable is  a sort of methaphor about how the different races appeared.

3. A long time ago all different races had theyre own language and society, nowadays in a lot of countryes there is a mix of races and languages living together.

4. Because language is created and open-ended, all days people can invent new words and using them to communicate in a society.