How do/did people who never learned a language think?

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How do/did people who never learned a language think?

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Language isn’t required for thinking. I heard that some people think all their thoughts verbally, like talking to themselves, but plenty of people think without words. You can examine a problem and think of a solution in a non-verbal way. Thinking through concepts and images is actually a lot more efficient and faster than verbal thinking, which is slower because it has to be linear.