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Suppose a person who couldn't write or speak raised two babies into their adulthood, would the two raised people create their own language?

Asked by _Whitetigress (4378points) September 30th, 2012

Now let’s assume they grow up on a remote island and the adult in charge didn’t speak or write any language just showed pictures of nouns and communicated that way or something.

Would the two kids being raised eventually create their own spoken language? We can assume they would have grown up healthy.

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