It seems at first that we learn from our surroundings, and if what we say works in reaching a goal it stays in us. But at the same time, some aspects of language seems innate and in us, and ubiquitous accros cultures, like the some sounds and the word “mama”.
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that’s pretty much all there is to it. that’s how proto-languages formed. as complex thoughts needed to be described, words were created for them. language is shaped by the need to express an idea. there are languages whose number system only has a few numbers because the speakers of that language never needed really big numbers. we’re basically just animals who developed a dedicated language cortex in our brains because it made us more effective at survival.
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