In the history, there are so many great linguists
appeared in Indo-European languages family. They had done great contribution to
the world linguistic study. But until now, they still don’t understand how the
language working, why? The answer is that in this language family, one of the
key component of language is missing, that is tone. From history as well as
common sense we know the pronunciation development was that to find out the
consonant first, then vowel and the last one was tone. For in every language,
the consonant was the easiest component to be noticed, then people became aware
of vowel, the hardest component to be noticed was tone. Without the comparing
of tone language to none-tong language, it is hard to understand how they are
working, no matter great thinker or normal people. And it also proved a truth
that even a great thinker could not fully understand a language other than
his/her mother tongue, not to speaker of a normal person. It is totally
impossible to understand a different language clearly.
People may ask another question, why there are no
great linguists in tone language family, for instance the Chinese or some
Africa language? The answer is also very simple. These languages never find a
problem to express something. They don’t have the problem of either ambiguity
or a too big vocabulary to be learnt.
The problem of Indo-European language is that they
adopted the alphabetic writing system too early. For once you adopted this
system, the number of sounds was settled. Or we may say any new sound would be
regarded as noise and to be refused, because no letter to represent them. While
the non-alphabetic language no this limit. Any new sounds could be accept. In
this way the sounds in non-alphabetic language turned to be richer and richer,
while the alphabetic language kept the same number of sound.
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