A long long time ago, humans went from grunts to some kind of primitive language then to an advance language.
How did a region possibly learn and agree that the sound “tree” for example meant that big thing over there?
Maybe my family would agree and say, but then our neighbours or tribe some 20km away?
Then for every word, tenses, grammar?!
I imagine it took a long time but I can’t even comprehend how you would transition from grunts to even a basic common language for a larger region like ancient China, Egypt, or aztecs.
They obviously did accomplish it, but how?
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I l’ve worked in a group composed of different scientists and other non science majors. The task we have is to develop a sign for a new species in the event that humans goes extinct. The sign has to describe the following “if you explore this area you will die until this year” . It sounds simple but this is a complex problem because we have no idea how a new species will develop. This is relates to your post how can we communicate to this new species. What has helped me contribute to the team is to look at ourselfs since birth, a baby communicates through sounds, if you are a parent you will know when a baby is crying from pain. You can also think of the first baby that was born and I am going to get in a controversy by assuming the first humans just appeared(male and female), we have to think how did they communicated, how did the first baby survive or did the first human couple appeared as grown-ups. All of this questions don’t have an exact answer but we were able to start the sign by doing some assumptions.
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