Can Neanderthals Use Language?

Neanderthals - Homo neanderthalensis. Language ability: relatively advanced language abilities, but evidence suggests that they may have had a limited vocal range compared to modern humans. If this were the case, then their ability to produce complex sounds and sentences would be affected.

Did Neanderthals communicate with language?

Humans were thought to have spoken language unlike any other species on Earth. ... But now, scientists think another species of human, the Neanderthal, had the ability to hear and produce speech just like us.

Did Neanderthals speak languages similar to early human languages?

An analysis of a Neanderthal's fossilised hyoid bone - a horseshoe-shaped structure in the neck - suggests the species had the ability to speak. This has been suspected since the 1989 discovery of a Neanderthal hyoid that looks just like a modern human's.