Sentence examples for primitive language from inspiring English sources

But on closer inspection, they resemble hieroglyphics, a primitive language inscribed in gleaming metal.

It's hard to explain the appeal of this primitive language, but perhaps just as hard not to succumb to it.

The discovery of ancient objects belonging to the Indus has split the scholarly community, with some claiming the symbols form a primitive language and others arguing they are simply pictograms.

Some experts have speculated that primitive language was developed from random sounds; early homo, they say, might have based his first words either on the noises he heard, like the splash of falling water or the thud of a rock smashing into a skull; or on his own instinctive cries, like a gulp of surprise at the sight of falling water or a yelp of effort caused by smashing a rock into a skull.

John Webb argued instead that Chinese was the primitive language of the human race (1669).

"The ability to rapidly share the skill to make Oldowan tools would have brought fitness benefits" to early humans, Morgan says, such as greater efficiency in butchering animals; and then Darwinian natural selection would have acted to gradually improve primitive language abilities, eventually leading from protolanguage to the full-blown, semantically complex languages we speak today.

Modern anthropology has helped to revise what now seems a quaint set of priorities by showing not only that there are no genuinely primitive languages but that differing languages mask no unbridgeable differences between human beings.

Primitive language-games are scrutinized for the insights they afford on this or that characteristic of language.

Originally from south Florida, Nick Klein is an experimental techno producer now based in New York City, where he co-runs left-field label Primitive Languages with Miguel Enrique Alvariño.

It is not only a propensity to make certain theoretical moves, but to make certain executive and imaginative moves, as well as to have certain feelings". This is an ability we share with animals, including some (like some primates) who can learn primitive languages, and others, like birds and cats (who cannot).

Nor should it be supposed that there is some privileged "primitive" language a language that picks out shapes and colours, perhaps in which all observers can describe what they see and reach agreement with those who are similarly situated.