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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We actually have an example of a language developing from (almost) nothing: when the deaf children of Nicaragua started attending a central school, they created a new language among themselves over the course of the next decade, with distinct grammatical features appearing in specific years etc, now called Nicaraguan Sign Language
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