Who is the author of language?

Answer 1

There isn't really an "author" of language. Language can be body language, spoken language, or written language, all very different.

Language in terms of communication through body movement occurred before humans were humans. Many primates and other animals use their body to communicate.

Spoken language evolved as humans developed the biological capacity to speak, but when we began to associate sounds to objects is difficult to pinpoint as there is no tangible record to give us exact dates. Experts still seem to have diverging theories.

Later we developed written language, which is easier to track. Some of the earliest being in the fertile crescent (now in modern Middle East around Lebanon, Syria). Other cultures created written language independently - Chinese in China, the Mayans in southern Mexico. As the idea of written language spread, other cultures began to create their own writing methods, in some cases using one of these founder languages and then adapting it.