Image of the Indo-European Language tree from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition (Houghton Mifflin, 2000).
Giorgio Agamben writes:
...Benjamin writes that the universal language of redeemed humanity, which is one with its history, is "the idea of prose itself, which is understood by all humans just as the language of birds is understood by those born on Sunday." With an intuition whose audacity and coherence must be considered, Benjamin thus holds that the universal language at issue here can only be the Idea of language, that is, not an Ideal (in the neo-Kantian sense) but the very Platonic Idea that saves and fulfills itself in all languages, and that an enigmatic Aristotelian fragment describes as a "kind of mean between prose and poetry" (Giorgio Agamben, "Language and History," trans. Daniel Heller-Roazen in Potentialities (Stanford University Press: Stanford, 1999), pp 59-60)
