Your instinctive reaction matches with scientific consensus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_writing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_writing

Your instinctive reaction matches with scientific consensus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_writing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_writing > Each historical invention of writing emerged from systems of proto-writing that used ideographic and mnemonic symbols but were not capable of fully recording spoken language. True writing, where the content of linguistic utterances can be accurately reconstructed by later readers, is a later development. As proto-writing is not capable of fully reflecting the grammar and lexicon used in languages, it is often only capable of encoding broad or imprecise information. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_speech https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_speech > vocal languages must have begun diversifying at least 100,000 years ago