Scientist Dr Christiansen has recently discovered similarity's in pronunciations across a large range of languages. His studies show that there might be a universal key and understanding to languages which is embedded in the human brain. Sarah Knaapton states and quotes him; 'the word for ‘leaf’ is likely to include the sounds
‘l,’ ‘p’ or ‘b’ while ‘sand’ will probably use the sound ‘s’. The words for
‘red’ and ‘round’ are likely to include the ‘r’ sound.' Connections are made between languages, highlighting certain common sounds when describing the same thing. "It
doesn't mean all words have these sounds, but the relationship is much stronger
than we'd expect by chance," added Dr Christiansen.
'Other
words found to contain similar sounds across thousands of languages include
‘bite’, ‘dog’, ‘fish’, ‘skin’, ‘star’ and ‘water’. The associations were
particularly strong for words that described body parts, like ‘knee’, ‘bone’
and ‘breasts.’'
'The
team also found certain words are likely to avoid certain sounds. This was
especially true for pronouns. For example, words for ‘I’ are unlikely to
include sounds involving u, p, b, t, s, r and l. ‘You’ is unlikely to include
sounds involving u, o, p, t, d, q, s, r and l.'
Perhaps language is buried deep within humanities roots that there is always going to be overlap, where language derives from older languages and so there is shared ancestry languages. This is what would allow for common saying to be made, as the origin of several languages could all derive from the same place, thus the same sounds are used. Could there be a universal language already existent? Is it a past language that a large group of people shared? Or is there a way of learning more about these forms of language to create a new universal language?
Perhaps language is buried deep within humanities roots that there is always going to be overlap, where language derives from older languages and so there is shared ancestry languages. This is what would allow for common saying to be made, as the origin of several languages could all derive from the same place, thus the same sounds are used. Could there be a universal language already existent? Is it a past language that a large group of people shared? Or is there a way of learning more about these forms of language to create a new universal language?