"Psychologist Quentin Atkinson counted distinct units of sound, called phonemes, in 504 of the world’s nearly 7,000 languages.
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He found that sub-Saharan African languages average the most phonemes, while language groups farther away have fewer phonemes.
These findings, published in Science, are consistent with the principle that “when a very small number of individuals break off from a larger population, there is a gradual loss” of linguistic complexity.
Controversy in the linguistic community is being stirred up by another recent study, this one from Nature. Researchers analyzed the grammatical rules of word order in several language groups and found that the patterns were too random to construct an evolutionary language tree.
The findings of these studies are consistent with a Biblical worldview, so long as evolutionary presuppositions are ignored.
Controversy in the linguistic community is being stirred up by another recent study, this one from Nature. Researchers analyzed the grammatical rules of word order in several language groups and found that the patterns were too random to construct an evolutionary language tree.
The findings of these studies are consistent with a Biblical worldview, so long as evolutionary presuppositions are ignored.
God gave Adam and Eve language when He made them about 6,000 years ago.
When people rebelled at the Tower of Babel, God confused their language.
Their new languages then lost complexity as small people groups spread out. The languages created then were the forerunners of today’s languages."
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