View Poll Results: What is the primary purpose of language?

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  • Tool of communication

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Thread: Is language primarily just a tool of communication or an expression of identity and culture?

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    In the Central Europe is the language prehaps the most important part of the national identity.
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    Anyone else?

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    it's quite various but my identity is certainly forged partially by my language,i would mean my psyche ,but it's also a tool of communication
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mikula View Post
    In the Central Europe is the language prehaps the most important part of the national identity.
    That certainly is not the case with Switzerland...

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    Both to an equal degree.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tooting Carmen View Post
    That certainly is not the case with Switzerland...
    Switzerland is an unique, special case. I am talking about successor countries of Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mikula View Post
    Switzerland is an unique, special case. I am talking about successor countries of Austro-Hungarian Empire.
    More so now, though that was less the case when Yugoslavia existed.

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    Both for me. The English language is a tool of communication with different peoples of the world, while at the same time, the language is also an expression of English cultural identity and heritage from their Anglo-Saxon ancestors who migrated what is now Germany in the 5th century AD.

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    language is, language is, language is life

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