LANGUAGE AND FOSSILS

A fossil is "any remains, impression, or trace of a living thing of a former geologic age, as a skeleton, footprint, etc." Language does not have fossils predating writing, prior to over 5000 years ago. We don´t know how language was invented by man, or how it has been evolving ever since. It does not escape evolution and is ever-changing, at a very swift pace. All languages spoken today have evolved from the original sounds to which meanings were attached without any missing links. We have no clues, no fossils, to show us this evolution prior to the invention of writing. 5000 years in the history of man are nothing, a flash in the pan. Beware of theories about language evolution. They all have something in common because they were invented by man.