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  • Re: New analysis suggests our language capacity existed at least 135,000 kya

    From Christian Weisgerber@naddy@mips.inka.de to sci.lang,sci.anthropology.paleo,sci.archaeology on Tue Jul 1 20:09:08 2025
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    On 2025-07-01, Tilde <invalide@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    fossils to cultural artifacts. The authors of the new
    analysis took a different approach. They reasoned that
    since all human languages likely have a common
    origin rCo as the researchers strongly think rCo the key
    question is how far back in time regional groups began
    spreading around the world.

    For a different view, see Piotr G-asiorowski's old blog entry

    Too Many to Communicate https://langevo.blogspot.com/2013/04/too-many-to-communicate.html
    Question 1: Was there a time when all humans spoke the same
    language?
    [...]
    No single language, then; at any rate not in anatomically modern
    humans. We have always been multilingual.
    --
    Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to sci.anthropology.paleo on Wed Jul 2 10:36:54 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.anthropology.paleo

    On 2025-07-01 20:09:08 +0000, Christian Weisgerber said:

    On 2025-07-01, Tilde <invalide@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    fossils to cultural artifacts. The authors of the new
    analysis took a different approach. They reasoned that
    since all human languages likely have a common
    origin rCo as the researchers strongly think rCo the key
    question is how far back in time regional groups began
    spreading around the world.

    For a different view, see Piotr G-asiorowski's old blog entry

    Too Many to Communicate https://langevo.blogspot.com/2013/04/too-many-to-communicate.html
    Question 1: Was there a time when all humans spoke the same
    language?
    [...]
    No single language, then; at any rate not in anatomically modern
    humans. We have always been multilingual.

    We don't know enough to exclude the opposite possibility: at first
    everyone spoke a different language but learned to undersand the
    languages of other members of one's family.

    By the principle of single creation the species Homo sapines has
    a single place of orgin and single founding population. If that
    population already had a language then proabably all known spoken
    languages are its descendants.
    --
    Mikko

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