D. Answer the following questions.
1. How did language come into being?
2. Why did early humans use symbols?
3. What does 'Hindsa' mean? Who gave this name? ?
4. Who developed the script for the blind? How is it used by the blind?
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Answer:
The idea here is that language was created to help humans survive. ... One, humans needed to communicate with each other in order to hunt, farm and defend themselves successfully from the surrounding harsh environment. Being able to communicate using language gave the human species a distinct survival advantage.
Answer:
1 Intuitively, one might speculate that hominids (human ancestors) grunting or hooting or crying out and gradually this somehow developed into the sort of language we have today.
2 By around 8000 years ago, humans were using symbols to represent words and concepts. True forms of writing developed over the the next few thousand years. Cylinder seals were rolled across wet clay tablets to produce raised designs.
3 The Arabs borrowed so much from India in the fields of mathematics. Even the subject mathematics in Arabic is known as Hindsa