Language, Our First Connection With Our Identity

By Randy Bent Barker

This piece is part of a series by the Global Vision Initiative titled “Lost in Translation”. To read more, please head to our Medium account or to our website here.

Language, as an elaboration and synthesis of human knowledge, constitutes perhaps the best evidence of the passage of our species across the planet, throughout time and space. As an indisputable product of human beings, the language that we have used has always been a faithful indicator of the behavior of society over time. Through this we…