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Relationship Between Language and Culture

Relationship Between Language and Culture           It is generally agreed that Language and Culture are closely related. Language is a form or style of verbal expression. It allows a person to communicate with others in meeting their needs.  While, culture is the customa ry beliefs, social forms and material trait of racial, a religious or a social group. The relationship between language and culture is the most significant invention made by culture. Language is used to learn culture and human culture cannot exist without language. Language expresses fact, ideas or events that are communicable, it reflects attitudes, beliefs and point of view. Also, language is viewed as a symbol of social identity.  The relationship between language and culture is a complex one due largely in part to the great difficulty in understanding people’s cognitive processes when they communicate.          According to Sapir (1921), “language is a purely human and non-instinctive method of communicating