Rather than language being a very recent innovation—no more than perhaps 100,000 years old, on some oft-cited accounts—in fact, language may have a greater vintage, perhaps going back half a million ...

THE CREATOR OF THE FIRST American dictionary believed there was an original language of humankind. Noah Webster called it Chaldee, and he believed it was the common language spoken before the Tower of ...

Until relatively recently, it was not considered good form to speculate on the origin of language. And, in part, this was a sound position to adopt. By the time that Charles Darwin published On the ...