“Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.”

—  Karl Marx

Source: The German Ideology (1845-1846), Vol. III, 30.

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Sprache entsteht, wie das Bewußtsein, erst aus dem Bedürfnis, der Notdurft des Verkehrs mit anderen Menschen.

Die deutsche Ideologie. Marx/Engels, MEW 3, S. 30, 1845/46
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