At what point in time language may have originated is far from clear: guesses range from 50,000 to 100,000 years ago and even earlier, but such figures are speculative at best. ..... So far, then, no natural language has been shown to be more primitive than any other language in terms of grammatical organization, expressiveness, and so forth.
――弘前大学(人文学部)前期日程(2月25日実施)――95年