THE ORIGIN OF HUMAN LANGUAGE

1. WHERE DID HUMAN LANGUAGE ABILITY (LAD) COME FROM?

2. WHERE DID THE FIRST LANGUAGE COME FROM?

3. WAS THERE ONE FIRST LANGUAGE OR MANY?

I. BELIEF IN DIVINE CREATION - LANGUAGE GIVEN BY GOD

II. BELIEF IN EVOLUTION -LANGUAGE ABILITY EVOLVED NATURALLY

            A. INVENTION THROUGH IMITATION: FOUR HYPOTHESES

                        1. DING-DONG "THEORY" - ONOMATOPOEIA

                        2. POOH-POOH "THEORY"

                        3. BOW-WOW "THEORY"

                        4. TA-TA "THEORY" (BY CHARLES DARWIN)

            B. INVENTION DUE TO NECESSITY

                        1. WARNING HYPOTHESIS

                        2. YO-HE-HO HYPOTHESIS

                        3. LYING HYPOTHESIS (BY E. STURTEVANT)

HYPOTHESES ON LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY

1. MONOGENESIS - SINGLE ORIGIN

2. POLYGENESIS - CANDELABRA THEORY -MULTIPLE ORIGINS

3. SCIENTIFIC MONOGENESIS

OUT-OF-AFRICA THEORY -ALL MODERN HUMANS DESCEND FROM A POPULATION IN AFRICA LESS THAN 200,000 YEARS AGO

MOTHER TONGUE THEORY -ALL MODERN LANG'S FROM COMMON SOURCE, PERHAPS AS RECENTLY AS 50,000 YEARS AGO