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According to the great Danish linguist, Otto Jespersen, there are five theories to account for the origin of language: the bow-wow theory, in which speech imitated animal calls; the pooh-pooh theory, in which people made instinctive sounds through physical or emotional reactions; the dingdong theory, in which people reacted to the environment; the yo-he-ho theory, in which people spoke when working together; and the la-la theory, in which speech arose from the romantic side of life.
Ono-matopeias, especially--the old bow-wow theory of language origin--it is too obvious and too limited: oral noises, not language.
The same is true of woof and bow-wow , though all dogs can be heard to approximate these sounds.