Fossil sounds

Linguistic remains, petrified patterns, obsolete inflections...

With a rotating tunnelmicroskope it is now possible to inspect linguistic fossils,
which were earlier considered too minute to analyze. Recent research reveals that:

In general the complexity of language is a constant. Yet things are shifting inside.

If the size of our vocabularium is an indication of the width of language,
and its height depends on the number of rules, exceptions and special cases,
then things are changing slowly: Complexity is shifted from height towards width.
The language of the future will be a wide but regular stream.

Towards the past things develop (invelop?) in the opposite direction:
fewer words being more varied. Thus the primeordial language
is one single word - in thousands of meaningful variations...

Dr Delius