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around 200,000 years ago! x

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Louis on 26 July 2010: indeed, no one knows for sure, but there is good reasoning behind thinking that language developed only about 13000 years ago. Although people communicated before, like all animals do, they would also have been using sounds like singing and gestures and even drawings and carving. The the cro-magnons made cave paintings 80.000 years ago. But they were unlikely to have had anything like structured language. It was only when humans settled down from being hunters gatherers into agricultural communities that language developed. There is an excellent book pulling the facts together on this by Rik Smits, unfortunately it seems to be available in Dutch only.

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For present day humans: Typically between 9 and 15 months from birth

For humans as a species: The origin of language is of unknown antiquity. Speaking is different from just making warning hoots and screams. any scientists have examined human and pre-human remains going back hundreds of thousands of years to determine when we at least had the "equipment" to speak.

The origins may have been as far back as H. erectus about 1.8 million years ago or H. heidelbergensis later at 0.6 million years ago. If language only started with our direct ancestors (H. sapiens sapiens) speech may only have started 100,000 years ago or less.

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When humanity began. It's that simple.

no. not to be vulgar but speech began because the female vagina is not located towards the back of her body but rather more towards the front. mating forced the mail and female to face each other and make eye contact. speech was necessary in order to find a mate and interact with each other.

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There are Sumerian texts nearly 5000 years old. Spoken language obviously predates written language, and we expect it would be at least as old as the earliest signs of civilization, some 20,000 years ago.

More likely yet, language has always been a hallmark of our species, which dates back 200,000 years. It is impossible to know this, but we suspect it to be the case. It is very likely species similar to us (like the Neandertal) enjoyed the benefits of language several hundred thousand years before us.

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There is written evidence since 5.600 BCE at a village near by the city of Kastoris in Northern Greece

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15y ago

humans most probably started speech when theHomo sapiens 1st evolved, i would say about 150,000 years ago

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