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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People helped each other learn each others language. They were not sitting in a room translating an unknown language. They were interacting with someone and gradually learning.
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