“Heart, Body and Mind would not exist without language”
Language is defined by the dictionary as “the system of sounds and words used by human to express their thoughts and feelings...(2)the particular language system used by people or nation...(3) a particular way or style of speaking and writing...(5) sing, symbols gestures, etc used for indicating ideas or feelings”*(1).For me language is a facility that only humans have to communicate specific meanings. It functions as primary vehicle to express our deepest thoughts and knowledge. As we can see, language has plenty of different connotations and meanings but all of them point to the same matter, that language is a way to express our feelings, ideas and thoughts and no human lacks of this ability, even the ones who have an incapability to communicate, as dephs or dumbs. This is what makes us think if language is the base of our minds, hearts and bodies, and that without it they would not exist.
We have always believed that language is independent from thought and that the words contain our ideas, first we think and then we express this thinking in language, to put it in more simple words, that language functions like a telephone line, the recipient extracts the meaning from the words and the idea of the thinker becomes present on his own mind. This is called the “Language Myth”* (2), and this picture is totally incorrect. In the beginning of the history of man, he didn’t know how to speak or express deep ideas or feelings, from the moment he learned how to do that he developed a new civilization, in this case it can be said that he learned how to think and reason and not how to speak. As we can see language and thought are much more closer than we believed, so it is reliable to say that language comes before thought and not the other way round. A clear example of this is when a child learns how to read silently, this is a skill that has to be learned by internalising audible speech. Another good example for explaining this theory is when we say something without previous thought and then regret it, in this case language came out without thinking or reasoning, so it is reliable to say that language comes first, and that without it we would not be able to think in any higher sense, and we would be just like animals, that do it all by instinct.
