Rich Alderson wrote:
I tend not to count things, I need 1 or a few or I have way too much of
that.
Another linguistic truism: There has been no such
thing as a "primitive
language" since early in the evolution of modern humans.
But modern language must have roots from somewhere in the deep past.
I have read that domestication of the horse,around the black sea
may have been on of the first wide spread use of a language to convey
ideas at the time.
( No talk of Atlantis here ).