Why Is The World So Diverse When It Comes To Languages?.

             It is known, even to a person to whom the entire study of.

             language isn't familiar, that the language is the greatest factor.

             on which most of the human activities depend. Without any form of.

             language, any cooperation and communication would be almost, if not.

             totally impossible (World Book Encyclopedia 62). This significance.

             of language is what draws scientists to study origin, differences.

             and connections between languages.

             Constant change of today's languages is what amazes linguists.

             even more. With the emergings of the new nations there was quite a.

             number of new languages. One such case is the language of Former.

             Yugoslavia, Serbo-Croatian, which is now called Croatian by Croats,.

             Bosnian by Bosnians, and Serbian by Serbs. Though these languages.

             were once united and actually dialects of one another, they split.

             as the three nations split. With this came huge amounts of new.

             words in Croatian and Bosnian which caused the Serbo-Croatian to.

             rupture even further.

             There are few conditions that keep a language unchanged. They.

             include a stable government, good communication, a centralized.

             educational system, a set of beliefs and traditions, and a spirit.

             of national unity (63).

             Beginning And Change of Language.

             Today's languages all have three basic systems, phonology,.

             grammar, and semology, and many have fourth system, writing.

             In the beginning, people talked and conversed, but they needed.

             something that would record and later on recall words (Sparke 42).

             This destitution has resulted in early alphabets, pictograms.

             Pictures were used to represent objects and items. It was easy for.

             people to represent those objects with the pictograms but it also.

             was very hard to find a pictogram that would fulfill idea of, for.

             example, craving (Laind 50-54).

             Around 1000 B.C., the Phoenicians were the first people to use.

             graphic signs to represent individual speech sounds (American.