• Question: When did language first come around?

    Asked by leemur12 to Emma, Jimmy, Janet, Niall, Simon on 14 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Niall Crawford

      Niall Crawford answered on 14 Mar 2013:


      It’s hard to put a date on it, as all sorts of sounds could count as language. Some of the earliest examples of writing happened over 25,000 years ago.

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