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Old English
bow-wow
hieroglyphs
Latin
Middle English
inflected
linguist
cuneiform
Germanic
ding-dong

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A/An studies the history and development of language.
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Early people's imitating sounds heard in the natural world is the theory of language development.
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The theory of language development states that people reacted to sensory experiences with specific vocal expressions.
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, or picture writing, represented objects or ideas.
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originated in Sumer and became associated with specific sounds as well as objects and ideas.
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Romance languages are derived from .
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English, Yiddish, and Norwegian are in origin.
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languages use cases to indicate grammatical function in sentences.
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is characterized by case endings, gender, and irregular verbs.
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Although different than Modern English, is still understandable today.

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