How do/did people who never learned a language think?
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So actually language is not only to communicate to others, but also to yourself. Language has this amazing ability to help shape and structure consciousness, it allows you to form thoughts, and ongoing cohesive mental processes.
This is why we attribute national characters to countries etc, like germans are rigorist or Italians are warm, this is partly explained because a language is like a tool that helps you build your psyche and intellect.
Also why humans have progressed this far, language is what allows us to develop further than other animals can do, not because other animals are innately dumb but because they don’t have a language to structure and develop their thinking
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