Ancient human experiments: What kind of language will babies create when they are placed in a language-free environment?

Science is a subject of constant experimentation and verification. Therefore, a lot of common sense in our lives is the result of many verifications by the ancients.

However, some of the verification is really unreliable, and the price paid is also somewhat heavy. For example, the story to be told today looks like a story, but it is the experience of many children who have spent their lives.

This experiment is the "evolution" of language, but it is pushed back, not forward. This is a result of a real lack of verification, but forced because of the selfishness of ancient monarchs.

The ancient Egyptian pharaoh Psamedic II, the son of Nico II, was the 26th administrator of ancient Egypt, and in addition to inheriting his father's policy and strengthening the country, he liked to study some very big brain problems.

For example, the question of the language of the gods is probably not thought of by ordinary people. But Psammetyk II thought of it, and it is said that the reason for thinking about this problem is the superiority of being a family member in ancient Egypt.

Psametik II thought of it this way: Our ancient Egyptian language is called the oldest language, and that should be favored by the gods. But what exactly is the language of the gods? Is it similar to our Egyptian language?

To tell the truth, this idea of Psamedic II is really not a science, at best it is enough to eat, and superstitious ideas limit his imagination, so he began to study the language of the gods.

Thinking about it, Psammetyk II thought it necessary to study what the language of the gods really looked like. And the real one who can open up this problem should be the children who have just learned to speak, because he found that although the little babies are babbling and learning, they are interconnected with each other.

Does this mean that children's "baby language" is the oldest language? And if adults don't teach them to speak the language of the present, they will retain the language of their infancy?

This idea is really a bit bold. Psamitik II said he would do it, and he immediately had the two children who had not yet learned to speak together and let a shepherd look after them.

However, Psammetik II had a request: the Sheep people could not speak to the two children, nor could they speak in front of them, but to take them directly to the uninhabited wilderness, to ensure that they had enough food, to listen carefully to their voices, and to hear what they were able to speak.

The shepherd was obedient, and he took his two children to a remote no-man's land, where he raised two children while herding sheep. However, he found that the two children had no intention of speaking for a long time, and this had been going on for several years.

Finally, one day the shepherd was pleasantly surprised to hear one of the children speak, and he blurted out a word that looked like "Vieques" when he got up in the morning.

What does the word mean? The shepherd could not understand it either, but he immediately ran to Psametic II for his life: the child spoke and uttered the word "Vieques".

Psammetyk II was stupid, what does that mean? So he immediately went to someone, and according to the pronunciation of the word, he thought it was the meaning of "Bekos".

So what does Bekos mean? Psammetik II gathered several scholars to study the term. Finally, scholars have concluded that this should be the Phoenician language, which means "bread."

At this point, Psammetyk II suddenly realized that Phoenician was the oldest language, and it should be the most primitive language of mankind.

But so what? Psammetych II only came to this conclusion, and nothing else. However, the story was later recorded in Herodotus' book Historia.

You see, can such a story be regarded as a scientific experiment? However you look at it, it is a ridiculous event. Why? In our thinking today: if a person has not heard of language since childhood, there is no way to develop a language system on his own.

It's actually easy to understand that after a baby is born, the pronunciation system is incomplete, and although it can make sounds, it does not have language syllables at all. This is also the reason why when the child is young, talk to him more often and let him grow up in the language environment.

Otherwise, a child who has never heard language will basically be unable to speak when he grows up. Frederick II experimented with this.

Frederick II, as a multi-talented man in European cultural circles, also struggled to find the "language of the gods". Presumably he was also inspired by the child's "baby language", so he also experimented with several children: a deaf-mute person raising several children.

In complete isolation from the outside world, these children grew up slowly. But Frederick II did not hear the language of the gods, because several children could not speak at all, and even their intelligence was lower than that of ordinary children.

That is to say, if babies are born and have no way to get a language environment, their pronunciation system cannot develop normally.

Naturally, the result is also very sad: the children's language ability is completely lost, do not speak the language of the gods, that is, the language of ordinary people can not be spoken. And even intellectual development is affected, and it is difficult to live a normal life.

That is to say, in the process of growing up, whether it is a language system or an intellectual system, if the child does not accept positive guidance and allows him to develop freely, I am afraid that the consequences will be difficult for people to accept.

Some people think that they can't speak because they haven't heard a voice, but watching others do things is also a process of learning and development. Therefore, they should not affect normal development.

However, the fact is that language function is part of intelligence, and when the intelligence is not effectively developed, the language ability is lacking at the same time, and the natural intelligence cannot be perfected.