> We don't know enough about the brain/mind to give anything like a measurable answer to this. It's all speculation. You might be interested in the Leiden Theo

> We don't know enough about the brain/mind to give anything like a measurable answer to this. It's all speculation. You might be interested in the Leiden Theory of linguistics. It basically posits that language is an evolved semiotic organism that lives within the hospitable ecological niche of our minds, and cohabits within the vessel of our biology: http://www.himalayanlanguages.org/files/driem/pdfs/prague.pdf http://www.himalayanlanguages.org/files/driem/pdfs/prague.pd...