Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Statement 1 is correct and statement 2 is incorrect: communication, community and communion do share an etymological root, but societies grew more complex, not simpler, in their communication.

Statement 1 holds because all three words descend from the Latin communis, meaning common or shared, binding them at their origin.

Statement 2 fails because as human society developed it evolved more and more complex systems of communication, from speech to writing to print to digital.

The word simple in statement 2 reverses the true trajectory, since sophistication and elaboration grew rather than shrank over time.

Statement 1 rightly grounds communication in the idea of making common, which the shared Latin root of the three words expresses.

The Latin communicare, to share or make common, is the source that ties these three terms together.