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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Evolution:
*the gradual development of something, especially from a simple to a more complex form.
“the forms of written languages undergo constant evolution”*
It starts small and via emmergence and evolution over time it become more complex an specialized.
Imagine a game like basketball, it first started with a bunch of people throwing a soccer style ball into a peach basket. Over time new rules developed as more people participated, and it grew into the ever changing game played world round with different versions we see today, just like language.
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