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In ancient times most cultures and civilizations made some reference to the
In ancient times most cultures and civilizations made some reference to the
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2023-11-19
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In ancient times most cultures and civilizations made some reference to the origin of their languages. However, they did not study language by observation or experimentation - at least as far as we can judge from records that have survived to this day. Most comments on the origins of languages come to us in folk-tales or religious writings. But the Greek historian Herodetus tells us one experiment.
An Egyptian king named Psammetichos wished to find out which was the world’s oldest language. To gain this information he decided to isolate two newborn babies until they began to speak. Because they were kept from adults, they would have no patterns to imitate. The king made the assumption that the children would speak what was a natural language’ - which would the oldest. After some months the children were beard to make a sound which was recorded as "bakes". This was found to be very similar to the Phrygian word for "bread". There fore Phrygian (a language once spoken in Asia Minor) was considered to be the first language of mankind, at least by the king Psammetichos, and, we may assume, by his court.
选项
A、the first word a child is able to utter in any language is "bread".
B、the Phrygian language was the oldest language of mankind.
C、the earliest word in any language is that for "bread".
D、the Phrygian language was a language spoken in Asia Minor.
答案
B
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