Sociological Linguistics

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>Patrick C. Ryan

>suggests strongly that language began very simply, as calls and gestures...

-- this may be true, but it's utterly irrelevant to the languages under
discussion here.  All _extant_ languages are of the same general level of
development, whether PIE or Esperanto.

Any more "primitive" stage of linguistic development is lost.  None of the
languages of which we have records show any such 'simplicity'.  They are all
about the same, at the fundamental level of serving the purposes of human
communication.