How does language affect thought and how does language diversity affect the cognitive process?

Well, I know when I sit to ponder; it is usually in words and my language. Yes, I also think in pictures and colors sometimes even sounds: however, my internal thoughts have a unique language. If I were given a problem at work, it would be very difficult to think about solving it without words or symbols. For this reason, language and its diverse thoughts shape one another.

Benjamin Whorf formulated the Whorfian hypothesis of linguistic relativity, the idea that language shapes thought. According to Whorf, people whose language provides numerous terms for distinguishing subtypes within a category actually perceive the world differently from people with a more limited linguistic range....