Pakadali pano, pali zilankhulo pafupifupi 6000 padziko lapansi. Pali mkangano wokangana ponena za amene ali khololo, chinenero choyambirira cha anthu. Asayansi akufufuzabe umboni weniweni wokhudza chinenero chakale kwambiri.
Ganizirani zida zingapo zofunika komanso zakale kwambiri zolembera ndi zolankhulira Padziko Lapansi.
Zidutswa zoyambirira zolembedwa m'Chitchaina zidayamba zaka 3000 zapitazo ku Mzera wa Zhou. M’kupita kwa nthaŵi, chinenero cha Chitchaina chasanduka, ndipo lerolino, anthu 1,2 biliyoni ali ndi mtundu wina wa Chitchaina monga chinenero chawo choyamba. Ndi chilankhulo chodziwika kwambiri padziko lonse lapansi potengera kuchuluka kwa olankhula.
Zolemba zakale kwambiri zachi Greek zidayamba mu 1450 BC. Greek imagwiritsidwa ntchito kwambiri ku Greece, Albania ndi Kupro. Pafupifupi anthu 13 miliyoni amalankhula. Chilankhulochi chili ndi mbiri yakale komanso yolemera ndipo ndi chimodzi mwa zilankhulo zakale kwambiri za ku Ulaya.
Chilankhulochi ndi cha gulu la chinenero cha Afroasian. Makoma a manda a Aigupto amajambula m'chinenero cha ku Egypt, chomwe chinayambira 2600-2000 BC. Chilankhulochi chimakhala ndi zojambula za mbalame, amphaka, njoka ngakhalenso anthu. Masiku ano, Aigupto alipo ngati chinenero chachipembedzo cha Coptic Church (mpingo wachikhristu woyambirira ku Egypt, wokhazikitsidwa ndi St. Mark. Panopa otsatira a Tchalitchi cha Coptic ku Egypt amapanga 5% ya anthu).
Ofufuza amakhulupirira kuti Sanskrit, chinenero chimene chinakhudza kwambiri anthu onse a ku Ulaya, chinachokera ku Tamil. Sanskrit ndi chilankhulo choyambirira cha ku India, chomwe chinayamba zaka 3000 zapitazo. Chimatengedwabe ngati chinenero chovomerezeka m’dzikoli, ngakhale kuti kagwiritsidwe ntchito kake tsiku ndi tsiku n’chochepa kwambiri.
Ndi wa banja la gulu la chinenero cha Indo-European. Malinga ndi zomwe zachitika posachedwa, chilankhulochi chakhalapo kuyambira 450 BC.
Anawonekera pafupifupi 1000 BC. Ndi chinenero chakale cha Semitic komanso chinenero chovomerezeka cha State of Israel. Kwa zaka zambiri, Chihebri chinali chinenero cholembedwa cha malemba opatulika ndipo motero amatchedwa "chinenero chopatulika".
Asayansi ambiri amakhulupirira kuti kuphunzira za chiyambi cha maonekedwe a chinenero si bwino chifukwa chosowa mfundo, umboni ndi kutsimikizira. Malinga ndi chiphunzitsocho, kufunika kolankhulana pakamwa kudayamba pamene munthu adayamba kupanga magulu osaka.