It's based on the natural sound source. The suggestion is that primitive words could have been imitations of the natural sounds which early men an women heard around them. In fact, in Britain, this type of view has been called ''bow-wow'' theory of language origin. But this is not the only one theory about the origins of language, here are more ones you can check in the link below:
http://www.4shared.com/document/ILyPK4gf/George_Yule-_The_study_of_Lang.html
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