Quote Originally Posted by Morphic tide View Post
Much more plausible to be "rooted" in them like how birdsong has a "base" instinctive pattern "fleshed out" by learning rather than directly using wholly instinctual calls, if one wishes to mix creationism with natural language development. Especially on the Chaotic side of things, where artistic expression tends to drive strongly toward stuff like the verbing of nouns, as seen with the massive escalation of such on the Internet.
I lean towards "These are the languages their gods speak to them in"; not everyone hears it, but enough do that it creates a fairly regular language, plus additions to local vocabulary.