Curious Kids: how did spoken language start?
- Written by Mark Ellison, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Australian National University
One of the ways we work out what proto-language might have been like is by looking at languages which have developed from nothing in recent times. One of the best examples is Nicaraguan Sign Language.Unsplash/Jo Hilton, CC BY-SA
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