Abstract:
Language is a very essential element in the culture of a society. In fact, it is basis of all cultural activities of a social organism. In order to understand and appreciate the culture of a human society we must understand its language. It is through language that human beings communicate to each other and share each other's thoughts, feelings and emotions. Language is the vehicle of all . human experience and as such is the only foundation of human culture and civilization. Without language a human society would be unthinkable. No society can built up and transmit its culture to future generation if it does not have a language. That is why
language is not only an element in the culture of a society, but it is also an essential basis for building it up.
A social organism, like the individual organism, has an urge to live, and it lives through a process of renewal and transmission much like the. individual organism. It revises, changes, modifies, reconstructs, according as situations demand, its philosophies and faiths, religious, customs, ideas, beliefs, standard, etc., on one hand, and on the other, it transmits them to younger generations to ensure their existence and continuity. This would not be possible without language. There are, however, some other means of communication - gestures, pictures, signals, etc. - but they are inadequate, and even if they serve some purpose on certain occasions, they prove effective only in so far as they reflect a certain language.
