Language | Can’t Sleep? Learn How Humans Learned to Talk
5/13/202635 min
Human language may have started with gestures, sounds, and early attempts to cooperate long before written history existed. This episode explores theories about how humans learned to communicate, how spoken language evolved alongside civilization, and why every culture developed its own unique way of speaking. Benjamin talks about the long history of humans trying to organize thoughts into something another person could actually understand. It turns out language is one of humanity’s greatest achievements, built mostly by people trying to explain where the food was or whose goat escaped again. It’s steady and consistent, with no whispering and no sudden changes, just enough to give your mind something to follow as you wind down. Happy sleeping! Ad-free episodes: https://icantsleep.supportingcast.fm/Have a topic in mind? https://www.icantsleeppodcast.com/request-a-topic Read with permission from Language, Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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First 90 secondsBenjamin Boster· Host0:00
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Speaker 20:07
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Speaker 30:40
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Benjamin Boster· Host1:09
Welcome to the I Can't Sleep podcast, where I help you drift off one fact at a time. I'm your host, Benjamin Boster, and today's episode is about language.
Speaker 01:26
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