I think it’s more than coincidental that the sound repertoire of babbling babies, compared with the speech sounds in a diversity of languages across the world, lends credence to the idea that there was a mother tongue that goes back to prehistoric times.
Readers of the Bible will recall that it was after the fall of Babel that people separated and spoke in many languages.
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