You'll be witness to the development of human language, learning how a single tongue spoken 150,000 years ago evolved into the estimated 6,000 languages used around the world today and gaining an appreciation of the remarkable ways in which one language sheds light on another. Now you can explore all of these questions and more in an in-depth series of 36 lectures from one of America's leading linguists. But it also beguiles us with its endless mysteries, allowing us to ponder why different languages emerged, why there isn't simply a single language, how languages change over time and whether that's good or bad, and how languages die out and become extinct. Language defines us as a species, placing humans head and shoulders above even the most proficient animal communicators.
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