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The complete missing of Sumerian indicates, there is absolutely no political bias in the article.

There's a glaring hole of the Chinese languages in all time periods of Asia, as used in primarily Chinese speaking states. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:300A:1AD:1400:B480:ADA6:F064:2E55 ( talk) 12:49, 9 March 2021 (UTC) reply

Great start, but I suggest renaming this article as "History of languages". Evolution of languages gets confused with Origin of language and Evolutionary linguistics. Weidorje ( talk) 09:56, 20 December 2020 (UTC) reply

The actual topic covered by this article is "Emergence of historical languages". "History of languages" is too vast to cover in a single wikipedia article. This is a useful page, but "evolution" is misleading. Category:Evolution is wrong for this article. However Category:Language histories exists and should be used. Vagabond nanoda ( talk) 07:05, 27 July 2021 (UTC) reply

Vagabond nanoda, how about "Language emergence"? Weidorje ( talk) 07:18, 27 July 2021 (UTC) reply

On second thoughts, I suppose evolution is a useful concept. The problem is that the word was used long before Darwin, but now the Darwinists claim it as theirs. So, there's a lot of philosophy written about the correct meaning of evolution. The evolution of languages cannot be "correct" in such terms. Saussure's solution was to gradually replace evolution with diachrony to avoid confusion. He also separated diachrony from history in a wider sense. I suggest the article is renamed as language diachrony, or it is explained that the concept of evolution is different from evolutionary biology. Weidorje ( talk) 08:16, 31 July 2021 (UTC) reply