It’s not that we didn’t know this but the fact that there is now evidence is astounding. Scientists have prevented research that traces back the world’s 6,000 back to one “mother tongue,”.

This language is an African language from 50,000 to 70,000 years ago.

The findings were published in the journal Science where it says that this language also resulted in human civilisation as a whole, kick starting art, hunting tech and the disapora that led to us inhabiting the entire planet.

Researcher Quentin Atkinson from the University of Auckland in New Zealand found that speed evolved much earlier than previously though and goes against the idea by many that languages developed independently around the world.

San Bushmen in Botswana

Pri.org reported:

Atkinson found that the first populations migrating from Africa laid the groundwork for all the world’s cultures by taking their single language with them. “It was the catalyst that spurred the human expansion that we all are a product of,” Atkinson said, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Atkinson traced the number distinct sounds, or phonemes — consonants, vowels and tones — in 504 world languages, finding compelling evidence that they can be traced back to a long-forgotten dialect spoken by our Stone Age ancestors, according to the Daily Mail.

Atkinson also hypothesized that languages with the most sounds would be the oldest, while those spoken by smaller breakaway groups would utilize fewer sounds as variation and complexity diminished.

The study found that some of the click-using languages of Africa have more than 100 phonemes, or sounds, whereas Hawaiian, toward the far end of the human migration route out of Africa, has only 13, the Times reported. English has about 45 phonemes.

The phoneme pattern mirrors the pattern of human genetic diversity as humans spread across the globe from sub-Saharan Africa around 70,000 years ago.

This is amazing!