While this article does not deal with proto-semitic, it should be ofThnak you for the fascinating article. Unfortunately this was ruined for me by the opening paragraph which is a non sequitur. If humans could invent language from nothing once, there is nothing to stop them doing so again, and so it is possible that language arose independently more than once and so that some modern languages are descended from a separate second or later original language.
interest.
Yigal
From <http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/16/science/16LANG.html>======================================
March 16, 2004
A Biological Dig for the Roots of Language
By NICHOLAS WADE
Once upon a time, there were very few human languages and perhaps only
one, and if so, all of the 6,000 or so languages spoken round the world
today must be descended from it.
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