Abstract
This paper presents an attempt to reconstruct the most basic features of the language of Homo Sapiens, following the principle of monogenesis, namely the viewpoint that since humans share a common biological ancestry, they also share a common linguistic one. Considering this issue, the basic methods of comparative linguistics are briefly presented first, along with the methodological approach utilized herein, named Qualitative Inquiry. The results of the reconstructing process are presented, classified in terms of phonological, morphological, lexical, grammatical and syntactic aspects. Only bordering to the scope of this paper, a brief comparison of this treatise to previous studies reveals both convergence and discrepancy concerning the features of the language.
Highlights
Everywhere we may look at, we find people grouping together in order to fight against other groups of people. We reason that it was not so with our ancestors: the early humans had to unite in order to survive amidst formidable beasts, temperatures much below freezing point, scarcity of food and deadly diseases. This is only one of many considerations reinforcing the theory of monogenesis (Kozyrski & Malovichko, 2015), which is the deduction that all human languages originate in one proto-human language: A theory that has given rise to much controversy, being opposed by the theory of polygenesis (Jackson & Weidman, 2005)
A few Proto-Sapiens words will be presented as discovered by the method of “Qualitative Inquiry”
This description of the Proto-Sapiens language is approximate, and some parts or details of the reconstruction may be less accurate than other parts
Summary
L. Zamenhof constructed Esperanto (Kiselman, 2008), he thought that people cannot understand each other because they do not speak one common language, putting the cart before the horse: in reality, people do not speak one common language because they do not want to understand each other. Everywhere we may look at, we find people grouping together in order to fight against other groups of people. We reason that it was not so with our ancestors: the early humans had to unite in order to survive amidst formidable beasts, temperatures much below freezing point, scarcity of food and deadly diseases. This is only one of many considerations reinforcing the theory of monogenesis (Kozyrski & Malovichko, 2015), which is the deduction that all human languages originate in one proto-human language: A theory that has given rise to much controversy, being opposed by the theory of polygenesis (Jackson & Weidman, 2005)
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