The source of languages is not a thing or structure. It is not us. Our languages are, in an important way, a record of the footprints of the developmental fervor implicit within terrestrial sentience; this is the history of the local emergence and growth of the sources and unifying continua of all life on Earth, and, indeed, beyond.

Our languages are the ‘tokenized remains’ left in the wake of the developmental fugues of terrestrial intelligence itself, and they cannot be otherwise, for we are both deeply involved and peculiarly implicated in this history… both as instances and as vessels of its expression, preservation and elaboration.