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• Which comes first, language or thought?
• Language may shape human thought

9 See also

Topics:

• Sapir-Whorf and programming languages
• Cognitive science
• Language and thought

People:

• Walter Benjamin
• Jacques Derrida
• Hans-Georg Gadamer
• Johann Gottfried von Herder
• Wilhelm von Humboldt
• Ferdinand de Saussure

Languages:

• Pirahã language
• Lojban language
• Toki pona

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