Origin of language

 

The origin of spoken language has stumped linguistics dating as far back as the Twenty-sixth dynasty in Egypt and the first recorded language experiment conducted by a Pharaoh named Psammetichus I. While it is widely understood that our ability to communicate through speech sets us apart from other animals, language experts, historians and scientists can only hypothesize how, where and when it all began.

 

Thought language

 

I think language. When I have to do something in Dutch, my L1, then I think in Dutch. But when I have to do something in English, my L2, I think in English.

 

Thinking goes faster than speaking. Sometimes you think of what you want to say, but when you say it out loud it doesn´t come out as easily as when you were thinking it.  When you think really fast and you're speaking you want to keep track of what you're thinking and you're suddenly speaking fast, which causes stuttering and unsure sentences. 

 

Dreams

 

I do dream language. Whenever I have a conversation in my dreams I can most of the time remember them when I wake up. The language used in my dreams is mostly Dutch. Some people make up their own language in their dreams. 

 

It is said that blind people have a lot more nightmares than people with sight do. Their dreams also contain much more tasting, smelling, touching and hearing than the dreams of people with sight. People who got blind later on in their lives tend to have vague images in their dreams, because they had sight once. 

 

The dreams of congenitally deaf people have a lot of bright colours in them and when they have a conversation in their dreams it is usually with sign language.