BHAGWANBHAI N. CHAUDHRY
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ABSTRACT
Language study is a rabbit hole without a bottom, at least at the present time. What I mean by that is studying language in general is fascinating and absorbing and will lead you down a myriad of interesting paths, all leading to further interesting paths – but you will never reach the bottom. There is, currently, no solution, no final story that explains everything. We simply don’t know exactly how all the modern languages came to be We have theories, of course, and as you train and study for a career in language translation you will encounter most of them. Where some people might assume that language is a random bunch of noises our ancestors squawked until we’d memorised them and assigned them permanent definitions, people who have studied language know it’s more complex than that. Where some people might be aware that French, for example, stems from Latin and English has roots in German and the Nordic languages, the translation services guru knows that there was at one point in human history a single language – a first language, or “proto” language from which all other languages stem.