A different view of the beginnings of language is based on the concept of natural sounds. The suggestion is that primitive words could have been imitations of the natural sounds which early men and women heard around them.
This theory is supported by the fact that all modern languages have some words with pronunciations that seem to echo naturally occuring sounds. Onomatopoeia is the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.