I searched up previous questions like this out of curiosity (and as per rule 5), but the most I found were simple things like physical objects or contextual filler words. I’m still quite confused about how both the first spoken and written languages were deciphered. I understand pointing at a rock and saying “rocher” in French and “felsen” in German and then knowing what a rock is in their language, but there are so many filler words or just nonphysical words in general that I couldn’t imagine how people started understanding each other.
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Imagine a child today with parents that speak two different languages. The child, even before school, after spending time with both parents, learns both languages and can translate between them.
Now replace the child and parents with a person living in a trading village with two main languages used.
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