The spoken word long preceded the written word. It was not the origin of communication, and may have become necessary only because we strayed so far from our natural origins and tribal traditions. As humans left the equatorial garden's of paradise, left the abundance of their original foods, they were forced to come up with new ways of living, different foods to consume and a more hostile reality of survival of the fittest. Forced by necessity, and then maintained by intention, humans had to move from fruitarian diet, with seeds, nuts and some roots, to a dependency on animal tissues as food. This could only occur, after humans had learned to control fire, and use it to make the animal flesh a sustaining source of food.
It is at this time in human history that pre words emerged as drawings, the remaining ones mostly limited to walls of caves. There would exist tribal sounds and gestures that were used and know by all, and crafted a way to identify us versus them, as we increased in numbers and came nearer to other tribal lands. For a very long time, overlap of villages and tribes was limited to running and walking distances, but then came the horse, carts, wagons and chariots. With perceived necessity at first, greed and conflict, first war-lord's and then city-states came into our worlds. Commerce between city states necessitated language and mathematics. First pictograph's the hieroglyph's and similar exact symbols emerged. Later first languages and alphabet's that emerged from earlier Samaria. With the alphabets came the written word, and non-verbal communication. Out of written word came poetry, words with music (anthem's), theater, shared philosophy, shared science and shared common and opposite beliefs on God and religion. This is.a version of what I believe to be our history, consistent with many of the writings that I have studied. Nothing inflexible or absolute, just words to ponder.
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