DARK ENERGY | LANGUAGE (PART-3)

DARK ENERGY

(LANGUAGE)

- Written by: Internet Warrior (IW)

We are continuing to share the various events that we have experienced, as we discuss the energy of life. In the previous section, we introduced the concept of chemical language, and now we continue our journey into it.

Acoustic Science

In your world, animals and early humans were in a state where they had to hunt in the wild to gather food. During that time, a group of the same species realized that hunting as a team made it easier to collect the food they needed. When they started working together as a group, they attempted various methods to communicate the ideas in their minds to the others in the group. Initially, they communicated by showing actions or gestures to convey their thoughts. For example, if an animal wanted another animal to eat a fruit, it would show how to eat the fruit by eating it first. What’s the problem with this? While demonstrating, the animal would often end up eating the fruit itself, leaving none to share, and a fight might break out between the two animals.

To address this issue, the world's first lexicon (dictionary) was created. In other words, a specific sound was used to represent an object or an action, and it was understood as a signal by others. This is how early humans began to communicate their thoughts. However, the human mind had many ideas, and it was discovered that even drawing pictures could communicate a thought. These pictures eventually evolved into written symbols. Thus, many different people in various parts of the world created dictionaries, and these pictures became the foundation for different languages. Understanding this first lexicon wasn't easy. People made different sounds from the lexicon in various ways.

This difference in sounds led to confusion and disagreements, resulting in fights. To avoid such conflicts, people worked towards creating a uniform way of producing sounds. This is where phonetics (the study of sounds) originated. As a result, all the languages that emerged in your world shared one common script at the beginning. Tamil, which absorbed many of these elements, became one of the most developed languages. Other languages emerged from it, such as Latin and Sanskrit, which shared similar traits. In these languages, there is no separate script and phonetic distinction.

Language's Scope and Wave Patterns

In order to speak a language, the parts of your body, such as your throat, tongue, teeth, mouth cavity, and lips, play an important role. Using these body parts, you can create a wide range of sounds. The types of sounds you can produce are determined by these body parts. These variations in sound are what your science calls amplitude variation. The Homo Erectus, who lived around 2 million years ago, had a similar structure to your head and mouth, which allowed them to produce sounds in much the same way. This means that the sounds Homo Erectus could create remain nearly the same even today, over 2 million years later.

With these sounds, various languages were created, and all languages share certain similarities. For example, in almost all the languages of your world, the first letter is "A". This is because when a person breathes out air without any other motion, the sound "A" is naturally produced. When you close your mouth after saying "A", the sound "M" is produced. This "AM" sound is easily created not only by humans but by many animals as well. The ease with which this sound is made makes it the first word children speak: "Mamma", which is used to refer to their mother. Because of this, in many languages around the world, the word for mother starts with the sound "AM".

Early humans, who spoke without much use of their tongue, later started using their tongues in various ways to create new sounds. These new sounds gave birth to different alphabets, allowing humans to rearrange letter sequences and exchange ideas. Despite the creation of new alphabets, early sounds were still used heavily by humans.

These sounds are referred to as vowels in Tamil. Even words like "Om", "Amen", and "Ameen" in various religions are derived from the same sound "AM".

The Range of Sound Production

No matter how many new sounds or letters humans create, they can only produce sounds within a frequency range of 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz, which is common across all the languages in your world. In this regard, many animals and insects have a greater ability to hear and produce sounds than humans. For example, a bat can hear sounds up to 110,000 Hz, and a dog can hear sounds up to 90,000 Hz. Humans, however, are limited to producing and hearing sounds only within the 20,000 Hz range. Imagine how many languages mice and bats might create with their superior hearing and sound-producing abilities.

In English, sounds produced without much use of the tongue are called vowels (a, e, i, o, u). But today, in English, a language that people use for commerce and communication, there is one form for writing and another form for pronunciation. For example, the word "island" is pronounced "i-land", not "island". This pronunciation difference is a result of the evolution of the sound system.

The Story of English

The Tamil language, in its early form, was used as a commercial language. However, English, which evolved from a mixture of Tamil sounds and elements from other languages such as Latin, German, and French, emerged as a language with two forms—one for writing and another for pronunciation. The Vikings, a group of seafaring people living in the North Atlantic and Arctic regions, were known for their skill in sailing. During long voyages, mysterious diseases would kill travelers, and it took centuries to solve this problem. Eventually, the Vikings discovered that eating cod liver oil from fish could prevent diseases during long sea journeys.

Thus, the language they developed, which became English, spread worldwide. The two-form language that evolved from Tamil’s commercial sounds became the foundation for English. But why did humans evolve from the original commercial sounds of Tamil to create a two-form language like English? (This will be explored in an different section in more detail)

The Global Language

As we mentioned before, the sounds used by early humans to communicate were based on natural sounds without using the tongue. Over time, as humans began to use their tongues, resulting in the simultaneous emergence of various types of languages in different parts of the world. Among these independently developed languages, Tamil is celebrated by people as an ancient language because it predominantly retained non-tongue-based phonetic characters within itself.

Many words across the world's languages are similar. For example, the word for mother—such as ‘Amma’, ‘Ma’, ‘Mom’, ‘Mama’, ‘Umma’—is used in many languages. Even cows vocalize as ‘Maa’. It is due to such reasons that Tamil is celebrated as the first language. But that is not entirely accurate. It is more appropriate to say that Tamil is the language most influenced by the earliest forms of language.

It is not right for humans to create divisions among themselves based on the languages they use to communicate and exchange information. There is also a deeper reason behind this. The language evolution we have described so far happened naturally. But what would happen? if such an evolutionary process were artificially created? We will address the answers to those questions in the next section.
  

To be continued…