Editing Onomatopoeia (section)

== Evolution of language ==
In ancient Greek philosophy, onomatopoeia was used as evidence for how natural a language was: it was theorized that language itself was derived from natural sounds in the world around us. Symbolism in sounds was seen as deriving from this.<ref name=":4">{{Cite journal |last=Osaka |first=Naoyuki |year=1990 |title=Multidimensional Analysis of Onomatopoeia – A note to make sensory scale from word |journal=Studia phonologica |volume=24 |pages=25–33 |id={{NAID|120000892973}} |hdl=2433/52479 }}</ref> Some linguists hold that onomatopoeia may have been the first form of human language.<ref name=":1" />