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Because humans had no means to communicate in prehistorical times..the lived often far apart, in some tribal areas of the world so, one language developed without influence of another.

If you look at languages now..you see many influences of one another

Latin, Indo-European, Germanic..etc

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According to the Old Testament of the Holy Bible, humanity originally lived in the one place and all spoke the one language. They decided to build a tower high enough to reach the sky. God disapproved on the grounds that if they were successful in this project, then they could do anything they wanted. So he scattered the people and mixed up their languages so they would no longer understand each other. For reference, see Genesis Chapter 11, verses 1-9.

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Isolation causes languages to evolve differently from each other. Isolation can be physical, political, or cultural.

Most languages share common factors and can be traced back to language families. For example, modern languages like English, Dutch and German are part of the Germanic language family, and share a common ancestor called Proto-Germanic.

Languages naturally evolve and the theory goes that at some point in time, as groups of people went their separate ways, their languages evolved and changed over time in different ways. Eventually, the languages of the various communities of people evolved differently enough that they became different languages.

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