I and many evolutionary biologist would disagree on this point. Language from a biological point of view is wired in the egg before a hatchling learns to sing.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20121016-is-language-unique-to-humans

“What makes human language unique is not that it allows us to communicate with each other, but that it allows us to do so with infinite variety . …. No, only humans can utter that sort of grammatical nonsense.”