The story of human language: Part 1 of 3

Lecture 1. What Is language?

Lecture 2. When language began

Lecture 3. How language changes, sound change

Lecture 4. How language changes, building new material

Lecture 5. How language changes, meaning and order

Lecture 6. How language changes, many directions

Lecture 7. How language changes, modern English

Lecture 8. Language families, Indo-European

Lecture 9. Language families, tracing Indo-European

Lecture 10. Language families, diversity of structures

Lecture 11. Language families, clues to the past

Lecture 12. The case against the world's first language.