which came first: the chicken or the egg? language.
You could still say that's recent on the evolutionary time span, given that life on Earth is ~3.5-3.7 billion years old. (Which is within the same order of magnitude as the age of the universe - which is itself wild to ponder.)
Chickens are a human invention.
It's fun to think about theropod language centers. Raptor kiki bouba.