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In his “Histories”, Herodotus writes about the Egyptian king, Psamtik, who tested a hypothesis amongst two toddlers raised by mute nannies in silence. When kids pronounced their first word it was “bread”, but not in Egyptian language — it was in Phrygian. This led the king to admit that the origins of the Phrygian people are more ancient. Be it a fairytale or a lack of nannies’ discipline, there is the modern idea too — that ontogeny repeats phylogeny. It is possible that the way mankind has learned to speak is reflected in the course of speaking skills development of a particular child.