Irving Finkel
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There's not one for Sumerian.
So this means that the truth that languages do not exist in a vacuum, but they're part of a big family, must always have been true.
So that when writing arrives about 3000, say 300 BC,
to write properly, it means that Sumerian was recorded just in time.
But the big languages, maybe in China, in Russia, somewhere else in Asia, that were related to Sumerian are all gone.
They're gone forever and ever and ever, unless something amazing happens.
So we've got the one representative of this bizarre family.
It's a very stimulating thing to imagine.
I personally believe that Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens for sure
had language.
For sure, they talked to one another.
It's impossible that they didn't.
The point came when they did.
They did.
And the Neanderthals, 100,000 years of rule, live in Europe.
They had to deal with the ice age.
They all live together.
They bring up their children.
They couldn't speak anything.
They have the same apparatus.