We Are Living in a Dangerous Multilingual world!

LANGUE and LANGUAGES, THE STAKE(s) OF MIGRATIONS

Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU

Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne

Presentation in English

(performed in French)

Recorded by AIPL

Friday, June 13, 2025, at 12:00 pm (midday)

1 — Good Morning.

The first idea is that we live and have lived for at least 300,000 years in a multilingual world.

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Yet the phylogeny of language is mostly one, and the same for all. We are meaning, here, oral language for at least 295,000 years. Written languages and writing were only asserted around 3,500 BCE — extended maybe to 5,000 BCE.

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The human articulated language went along a three-articulation phylogeny.

FIRST, vowels and consonants, and their rotation. Keep in mind, even for hominids (monkeys and apes), there are no…