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I've just been reading about Edenics (came across it via the ZBB) and what I've seen is NOT good. It basically looks like a load of tripe that doesn't use acceptable linguistic methods.

Erg. There's the onomatopoeic word in Arabic for bat (the animal), and it's something like 'woo woo,' but I just can't remember it.

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This is paraphrased from my textbook:

Homo sapiens (Neanderthal) began to cluster into groups and began to share activities. This meant a greater need for communication. The Broca's Area of the brain controls the tongue, throat, and mouth, helping us to speak. Australopithecines has an imprint of this area on fossilized skulls, and it is more visible as Homo erectus evolved into Homo sapiens, meaning that these people might have already started speaking skills.

About 40,000 ybp and earlier, tools didn’t appear to have any regulated shape. With the evolution of Homo sapiens sapiens (Cro Magnon), tools began to become standardized. This shows that someone must’ve had an idea as to what particular tools looked like and had to communicate what they should look like.

A spoken language depends on “things as context, tonal level, and body movement.” It’s possible that sounds were created with gestures alongside.

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So... yeah. Tch.



Yep, It started about 3000 BCE, where people (scribe like people, mostly) drew pictograms on baked tablets These pictograms eventually became ideograms (as well as pictograms, but that’s besides the point.) The pictograms began to be written with reeds, which made wedgeshaped marks (cuneiform), and these developed into phonograms.

But the first alphabet was created by the Phoenicians. It was an abjad, really…

Stupid MS Word, it gets on my case for using passive sentences.

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