5.6M views · 50K reactions | History of The Most Spoken Languages by Total number of Speakers from 1900 to 2020. The first language evolved around 50,000-150,000 years ago, which is around the time when modern Homo sapiens evolved. Languages are linked to each other by shared words or sounds or grammatical constructions. The theory is that the members of each linguistic group have descended from one language, a common ancestor. | RankingRoyals | Facebook