Since most animals have some sounds that they can make and most members of a single species make the same sounds, why do humans have so many very different languages and is there a single language that is the most natural for humans to speak?
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Animals *don’t* actually make the same sounds, not innately. Some are genetically programmed in the sounds they make, in which case any variation from the normal pattern makes their communication ineffective, meaning they’re less likely to reproduce. Others, like birds, tend to mimic the noises their parents are making, which means that the “language” of a population can drift over time just like the languages of human populations do. Because human language is contextual, it changes based on what people hear, how people need to communicate, who people need to communicate with and the concepts they need to communicate. There is no “most natural” human language.
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