From what has been said, it must be clear that no one can make very positive statements about how language originated. There is no material in any language today and in the earliest records of (1) ______ ancient languages show us language in a new and emerging state. (2) ______ It is often said, of course, that the language originated in cries of (3) ______ anger, fear, pain and pleasure, and the necessary evidence is (4) ______ entirely lacking: there are no remote tribes, no ancient records, providing evidence of a language with a large proportion of such (5) ______ cries than we find in English. It is true that the absence of such evidence does not disprove the theory, but in other grounds too the (6) ______ theory is not very attractive. People of all races and languages make rather similar noises in return to pain or pleasure. The fact (7) ______ that such noises are similar on the lips of Frenchmen and Malaysians whose languages are utterly different, serves to emphasize on the fundamental difference between these noises and (8) ______ language proper. We may say that the cries of pain or chortles of amusement are largely-reflex actions, instinctive to large extent, (9) ______ whereas language proper does not consist of signs but of these that (10) ______ have to be learnt and that are wholly conventional.