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Hegar@fedia.io 1 month agoLanguage is much older than just 10k years. There's a few reasons to think that language might have developed with erectus, which could make language 10x older than the 'human specie', according to anon.
Glowstick@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s why i said advanced language. Lots of animals have language.
Hegar@fedia.io 1 month ago
Usually the distinction is between "advanced communication" which some animals display, and "language", which only humans have.
Whether you want to call it language or advanced language, what we do today is way older than 10k years. There are stories that have been dated to 100k and if the arguments about erectus are correct, then what you call advanced language is probably 2m+ years old.