The origins of language and how language began is well documented. This belief is false . Speculation about how humans first began to use language include the following.
Many religious people believe that language has divine origins.
Because great religions became organized much later in historical terms than when man must have been speaking a language, it is postulated that humans first used gestures. Other researchers believe that language began as an imitation of nature. This is known as the echoic or onomatopoetic theory . Still other critics believe that man must have sounded grunts and expressed discontent, joy and other emotions before words were spoken. This is the ejaculatory theory .