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Linguist Marina Yaguello traces the myths, legends, and religious narratives that have shaped humanity's understanding of the origins of language.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

It's interesting on how language is bound to be surrounded by myths like this. It reminds me the Kaingang and their mythology - where they'd sprout out of the soil already speaking Kaingang, and with their dual social structure already established by the gods; while the other peoples would be "off-shoots" of the Kaingang and speak increasingly divergent versions of the Kaingang language.