How popular is Gemma? Gemma is a very popular first name for females (#1711 out of 4276, Top 40%) and also a very popular surname for both adults and children (#28049 out of 150436, Top 19%). (2000 U.S. CENSUS)
Chomsky and Gould hypothesize that language may have evolved simply because the physical structure of the brain evolved, or because cognitive structures that were used for things like tool making or rule learning were also good for complex communication.
Expansion. Most European languages belong to the Indo-European language family. The proto-language of this family (known as Proto-Indo-European or simply Indo-European) emerged in far eastern Europe, from where it spread westward across Europe and eastward into Asia.This great Indo-European expansion occurred primarily during the period ca. 2000-1000 BC. 1.ranches. The Indo-European language family has four main living branches: Indo-Iranian, Balto-Slavic, Germanic, and Italic. In the family tree provided below, the languages in the bottom boxes are the largest member language(s) of their respective branches.