Thursday, March 15, 2012

"The tower of Babel"


Answer these questions based on the video  "Language: Constant Change"

1. What is the biblical story of "the Tower of Babel"?
People tried to build a tower to reach the sky but, because of their ambition, Babel (God) punish them making them talk in different languages, so they can´t communicate. 

2. What does historical evidence tell us of this biblical event?

People start to expand over the territories, and new language appear.

3. What's the relationship between genes and language?

Similar genes talk the same language because of the social context.


4. Why do languages constantly change?

Because language is learn by every generation, and they interact whit it, changing words ore creating new ones.
  

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