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Often this need to communicate is associated with trading relationships among linguistically diverse group.

When two or more groups speaking mutually unintelligible languages come into contact over a period of time, a form of language will usually emerge to meet the need to communicate among the groups. Human beings always seem to be able to develop communication. The transformation of a pidgin into a creole may provide some insights into the mechanisms by which language first evolved. The rich literature on creoles nevertheless provides relevant material for speculation about what the earliest languages may have looked like.”

“The earliest stages of prehistoric languages are more likely to resemble pidgins and jargons than creoles. In his book The Origins of Grammar, linguist James Hurford writes: There are no fossilized words and syntax is not a stone tool and so our understanding of the origins of language must be inferential based on an understanding of contemporary languages and language change.