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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From:
<span class="gd"><span style="color:#5B1094">Paul Finlow-Bates</span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span></p>
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<span class="gi">LL-L "Language history" 2011.04.15 (05) [EN]</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" class="MsoNormal">From: Isaac M. Davis <<a href="http://uk.mc286.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=isaacmacdonalddavis@gmail.com" target="_blank">isaacmacdonalddavis@gmail.com</a>> </p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" class="MsoNormal">Subject: LL-L "Language
history" 2011.04.15 (03) [EN] </p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Hello
all, </p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" class="MsoNormal">....." If the human
race began as several related tribal groups, say in the Rift Valley, then there
would never have been any 'political' situation, as it were, that would have
caused them to speak the same language, rather than sharing some words (but not
all) with the groups more closely related to you and having next to no
vocabulary in common with groups that are on the other end of the valley, even
as all groups were developing more complex language skills."</p>
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The human race couldn't emerge from several related tribal groups if there was
no communication. We would have to be descended from one or other of them, and
speak a descendent of one their languages. Or, if they are related, they
must have a common ancestor - and a common ancestral language even if it
subsequently diverged.</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Paul</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Derby</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">England</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From:
<span class="gd"><span style="color:#00681C">Hellinckx Luc</span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a>></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject:
<span class="gi">LL-L "Language history"</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Beste Paul,</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">You wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy;">I can't see why a single proto language should be "fringe
science". Unless you believe that different languages were created
independently, Tower
of Babel fashion, I can't
envisage any mechanism of language evolution that <em>doesn't</em> involve a single proto-language.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">From what I understand, it
seems likely that Neanderthal had linguistic capacity. Moroever, since their
genome also provides strong evidence for interbreeding with humans (1 to 4 % of
Eurasian genes would come from Neanderthals), it can't be ruled out that modern
language is some sort of pidgin to a certain extent. Reconstructing the
language that modern humans may have shared with Neanderthals before their
first split, roughly 400 000 years ago, is another matter of course. Maybe
Neanderthal was only capable of singing whereas Homo sapiens was a chatterbox?</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Even if one day, you manage
to make a draft of the proto-language of primates, then a new question will
arise: what language did we speak before we were primates ? ... what does our
language have in common with bird speech (Twitter, here we come) ? ... and so
on. </p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">What language does the Force
speak? Rest assured, math it is...he told me...and I understood ;=)</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Kind greetings,</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);">Luc Hellinckx,
Halle, Belgium</span></p>
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