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- - - - In Genesis chapter 11 we are told how the new languages appear. This chapter tells how before everyone spoke the same language, and then they decided to create a tower of babel to be able to get to where God was, and when God saw this, he changed everyone's language, leaving a few with the original language and the rest spreading them all over the world
- - - - 2. The “pooh-pooh” theory Holds that the first words came from involuntary exclamations of dislike, hunger, pain, or pleasure. In this case the first word would have been an involuntary ha-ha-ha, wa-wa-wa. These began to be used to name the actions which caused these sounds.
        
        3. The ding-dong" hypothesis Language began when humans started naming objects, actions and phenomena after a recognizable sound associated with it in real life. This hypothesis holds that the first human words were a type of verbal icon, a sign whose form is an exact image of its meaning. Chinook Indian word for heart--tun-tun, Basque word for knife: ai-ai (literally ouch-ouch).
        
        The ta-ta" hypothesis. Charles Darwin hypothesized though he himself was skeptical about his own hypothesis that speech may have developed as a sort of mouth pantomime. In other words, language developed from gestures that began to be imitated by the organs of speech the first words were lip icons of hand gestures.