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I’ve never heard of this.
https://www.iflscience.com/almost-all-languages-appear-to-follow-zipfs-law-and-we-have-no-idea-why-76965
We’re the same basic species. It doesn’t surprise me to learn that languages construct in similar ways. We’re describing the same world.
It would be interesting to to see if birdsong follows some version of Zipf’s Law.