According to the study, the researchers — from France, Germany and Ivory Coast — found that the primates can combine 12 primary sounds to form 390 “words” or unique sequences, forming a precursor to language.https://theprint.in/science/grunt-hoo-bark-study-shows-chimpanzees-can-string-together-sounds-to-form-sentences/961214/
The 12 primary sounds they identified included grunts and hoos, which the chimps combined into groups to form phrases of varying meanings, the study says.
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