Liberation Role- Narrator Audience- The general public Purpose- To inform Is language not the ultimate form of liberation? Has it not provided the inner us with an escape route from our once submerged minds? But where did this Savior come from? Was it endowed by God or a result of evolution? Was it invented by man or did it invent man? As big of a cultural phenomenon language has been, we know very little of its inception. There has been countless opinions and ideas of the origin of language, but as Bernard Campbell made very clear in Humankind Emerging, "We simply do not know, and never will, how or when language began"(Nordquist, Web). Since there is no valid justification for the birth of language, let’s flirt with some …show more content…
The Hebrew bible, for instance, tells the story of the tower of Babel. Humanity only spoke one language at this time and they decided to build a tower that would reach the heavens and forever cement their legacy. God came down during the construction of the tower and saw the people's true intentions were full of pride. He then confused their language, in which they started to babel, and scattered them throughout the world, leaving the unfinished tower. The WA-Sania people of east Africa believe in the beginning that humanity also spoke just one language, but during a massive famine a multitude of people started to become hysterical and wandered throughout the earth rambling bizarre words. In southern Australia, the people of encounter bay accredit our ability to speak intelligently to cannibalism! Ages ago, there lived an old woman named Wurruri who had a very bad habit of scattering fires with the stick she carried while the people were asleep. And when she died the people celebrated by eating her body. Those that consumed the flesh spoke a different tongue than those who ate the organs and from those who finished the remains (Web). These are just a few of the vast number stories and myths that are told at every corner of the