Eli5: How did language develop? And on top of that how did a written language develop?

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Basically what i am asking is how were people suddenly able to understand each other and form words for things? Also how did they then take those words and create letters and writing in a way that other people could understand?

Another question I have is when did languages actually develop and how do we even know?

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Ever see 2 babies meeting for the first time? First it’s frustration that they can’t get the other to do what they want. As it progresses they find ways to communicate their desires. Give that a few hundred or thousand years and boom.

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