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How many different languages are there on Earth?

There are currently approximately 2000 different languages. This is much less than at the beginning of our era.

It is believed that two thousand years ago, when people and tribes were more isolated from each other, there were 10000 languages.

Author: Mendeleev V.A.

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Many, many parents are faced with the fact that their child, only yesterday still obedient, suddenly turns into a difficult teenager who is clearly not interested in what dad and mom say, who does everything differently than he is told, who behaves as as if he does not hear the elders at all.

Employees of Stanford University found out that everything is true: teenagers do not hear their elders in the truest sense of the word. True, it’s not that they don’t hear - it’s just that the parental voice ceases to be the main one among the voices of other people.

What does cease to be the main mean? In past work, scientists have explored how the child's brain perceives the mother's voice. It turned out that the voice of the mother includes a number of zones in the child's brain, ranging from purely auditory to those responsible for self-awareness and facial analysis. Moreover, the mother's voice activates all these zones more strongly than the voice of an unfamiliar woman.

These experiments were done with children from 7 to 12 years old; for new experiments, children from 7 to 16 years old were already invited - and it turned out that the sixteen-year-old brain reacts to the mother's voice differently than the seven-year-old brain. The areas responsible for attention and anticipation of rewards, as they grow older, begin to respond more strongly to unfamiliar voices; the corresponding changes begin somewhere between thirteen and fourteen years of age. That is, it cannot be said that a teenager stops hearing his mother at all, just that if there is an alternative, he will listen with great attention to another voice, not necessarily a comrade of the same age, but simply an outside adult.

It may be difficult for some to come to terms with this, but not a single parent in the world will be able to install in a child the entire amount of knowledge that will be needed in life - and the ability to live in society also belongs to such knowledge. A person will encounter many other people with whom one needs to somehow negotiate, whose words need to be analyzed, whose emotions and thoughts need to be somehow understood, and the sooner the brain learns these procedures, the better. To learn, you need educational material, which is why the family world opens up into the external environment, and the ear begins to catch what others say first of all, instead of the long-familiar intra-family conversations.

However, such a switch to the outside world must depend on many different factors, and one of the main factors here, of course, is the relationship between the child and the mother. And these relationships are obviously influenced by other relatives, and here it would be interesting to know if the perception of the father's voice or the voice of brothers, sisters, etc. is somehow changing.

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