The Egyptian word for cat was “mau” so close enough
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humanspiral@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
Apparently there’s enough comments to convince me this was serious. Generations would invent language, but it’s a tough ask for children to do it, and expect that it matches any existing langunge. Why cats and dogs are not called meowsers and woofers in a language I know is beyond me.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Children have been documented to spontaneously invent language.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
Thank you for link. Interesting. It did show language evolving/changing quickly. Any expectation that they would reinvent ASL or Aramaic independently would have been an absurd expectation.