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Escrito originalmente por Perikles
Actually, I don't think it is that trivial, because Herodotus is reporting the first known attempt at the history of languages. Psammetichus got it completely wrong because it never occurred to him that two children living isolated with a goatherd for a long (but unspecified) time without contact to human language might just emit noises like goats when wanting food (Bekos). An interesting experiment, though.
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You are right, and this imitation belongs to the natural sound source theory of language.