What is the history of languages?

Have you ever wondered how humans went from grunting around ancient campfires to texting, writing books, and speaking over seven thousand different languages today? Grab your time-traveling dictionary, because we are exploring the amazing history of languages! Join Mira and Finn as they uncover how our early ancestors first started talking thanks to a special "language gene" called FOXP2. Find out how groups of people wandering across the globe created new words, and how nearly half the world's languages all share the exact same ancient great-great-great-grandparent language! We will also travel back to ancient Mesopotamia to see the world's very first written language, Cuneiform, which was actually invented just to count sheep and keep track of taxes! From drawing tiny emoji-like pictures on wet clay tablets to carving hieroglyphs on ancient Egyptian pyramids, writing changed the world forever. Plus, discover one of the weirdest and coolest languages on Earth: Silbo Gomero, a language made entirely of whistles that can be heard over three miles away across massive mountain ravines! Get ready to decode the awesome secrets of how we talk!