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https://www.oddnewstv.com/ The connection between culture and language has been noticed for a long time. For example, the ancient Greeks distinguished between civilized peoples and barbarians, ie. those who spoke incomprehensibly and unintelligently. The fact that different groups of people speak differently is often taken as tangible evidence of cultural differences as opposed to other less obvious cultural characteristics. 19th century German romantics such as Johann Gottfried von Herder and Wilhelm von Humboldt saw language not only as one of the characteristics of culture, but also as a direct expression of the national character of people and their culture in condensed form. Franz Boas, the founder of American anthropology, like his German predecessors, saw the language of a community of people as a major criterion for their common culture. He also argues that the ability to understand a language of a group of people is the key to understanding their culture. He was the first anth...