How was the first language formed?
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Nine-year-old Eva was watching an episode of the children’s show Horrible Histories about the stone age recently when a question popped into her head. The cave men were speaking a broken form of English, but Eva thought that didn’t sound right and she wondered: how was the first language formed?
She joined our host Eloise to get some answers from anthropologist April Nowell from the University of Victoria in Canada.
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