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>There's really no good data to support this claim.

Fine.

We know that languages did not exist at some point. We made them exist.



Yes, I acknowledge that we have evidence that groups of tribal humans will evolve language constructs over tens of thousands of years.

Whether that happens in 1 generation or 10,000 generations is completely unknown.


As others have mentioned in this thread, the Nicaraguan Sign Language shows it can happen in years, not even generations.




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