7,000+ languages?

First of all I am NOT a Christian. My question is how we ended up with thousands and thousands of languages if we all evolved from the same sorce.

Simply a matter of time and distance. Try reading "old English" sometime. You'll find it very difficult, I imagine. Yet these are our direct ancestors and seperation by distance doesn't really come into play to a large extent. 

Languages evolve, just like species. 

Thanks! I agree

Sure doesn't make them easy for me to learn though, it seems.  : ( 

I admire anyone with that gift. Are you multi-lingual? 

No, unfortunaly. I'm monolangual-english. My mum is going to make me take Spanish, although I want to learn German.

Hmmm, I took some German (and a dash of Latin) but I wish I'd taken Spanish instead.  : )

Whatever, best to you!

Thanks!! Of course, the field I want to go in is computer and engineering.

A more interesting question to me is how we ended up with language at all.

As far as I know, homo sapiens is the only species for which language itself has started to lead a life of its own, in the sense that we use all kind of 'abstracts' to refer to reality.