Basically the title. Languages often have complex rules and a lot of words. How everyone agreed on them? And together created the languages? What process did they go through?
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I think early languages would have been about gesture and tone of voice as much as words. An angry grunt would communicate well whatever the actual sound. Objects would have been given names by common usage, so you could point at a child and it means ‘child’ and then gesture would have indicated size. In due course more specific words would have been used eg baby, infant, toddler, etc
Probably language evolved more when it started to be written down.
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