QUESTION = how was the first prpgramming language invented? What was the name of the language? GENERATION = As far as I know, the first proto-language started off as sounds, namely "whoops" or "whoops", and eventually evolved into more complex sounds and ideas. Then humans learned to talk and started doing things like miming what animals sounded like. Then you had objects (objects made out of stone, animal bones, etc.) that communicated to other objects in their way. Then eventually you had objects (objects made of animal bones) and objects (animals made out of something else) that communicated with humans directly. You can find quite a lot of evidence of this in the proto-language. This is all loosely based on a few "bible verses" I remember reading on this sort of stuff, but it has always seemed reasonable to me as to why these primitive proto-languages might have begun to evolve, as they would have needed to communicate with each other a lot. Also there's no particular reason to believe that they wouldn't have just been very random. You'd think that proto-language would likely evolve spontaneously, which is also kind of a hypothesis for how some might have started. It seems like they may have been unique to that particular area. We can speculate that they may have been very successful. RETRIEVAL #0 = Gudang language---G caaka "lungs" WCL tete "animal/bird leg", cf. MM teter "lower leg, upper foot" : G tetarr "finger/toe nail" WCl thawal "coast, shore, shoreline" : G thawarr "seaweed" (the WCL word suggests a miscommunication between MacGillivray and his informant(s), mistaking "seaweed" for "coast, shore, shoreline") WCL thœyap(u) "wrist", OKY thœrapu : G theraapi "wrist, forearm" WCL thuugu "outrigger pole" : G thuugu WCL uru / wœru "rope", sisaluru "type of rope" : G cicalurru WCL urui "creature, bird" : G wurruy "creature" WCL uur / wur / wœr "water" : G (?) uurru "boil" WCL waapi "fish" : G waapi WCL waaru "turtle, green turtle" : G waarru, Y iwurru, A waru WCL wagel(a) "after, behind" : G wagel "thunder" (as thunder always follows lightning, "wagel" may have been recorded by MacGillivray through a misunderstanding) WCL RETRIEVAL #1 = Outline of communication---History of computing "(see also Timeline of computing)" BULLET::::- History of computer hardware BULLET::::- History of Internet BULLET::::- History of linguistics BULLET::::- History of mass media BULLET::::- History of radio BULLET::::- History of telegraphy BULLET::::- History of telegraph BULLET::::- History of telephone BULLET::::- History of television BULLET::::- History of writing BULLET::::- Ideograms BULLET::::- Origin of language BULLET::::- Petroglyphs BULLET::::- Pictograms BULLET::::- Proto-language BULLET::::- Semaphore line BULLET::::- Smoke signals Section::::General communication concepts. Section::::General communication concepts.:General topics of communication. BULLET::::- Autocommunication BULLET::::- Empathy BULLET::::- People skills BULLET::::- Persuasion BULLET::::- Propaganda BULLET::::- Public speaking BULLET::::- Reading BULLET::::- Rhetoric RETRIEVAL #2 = Garrwa---Garrwa Garrwa or Garawa may be, BULLET::::- Garrwa people BULLET::::- Garrwa language RETRIEVAL #3 = Piro language---Piro language Piro may be: BULLET::::- Piro language (Peru) BULLET::::- Piro Pueblo language RETRIEVAL #4 = Ventureño language---Ventureño language BULLET::::- Ventureño at the California Language Archive RETRIEVAL #5 = Piro Pueblo language---Piro Pueblo language Piro is a poorly attested, extinct Tanoan language once spoken in the more than twenty Piro Pueblos near Socorro, New Mexico. It has generally been classified as one of the Tiwa languages, though Leap (1971) contested that Piro is a Tanoan language at all. RETRIEVAL #6 = Childes---Childes Childes may refer to: BULLET::::- Childe's Tomb (or Childes Tomb), Dartmoor, England BULLET::::- CHILDES, or Child Language Data Exchange System, a database of child language