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Language

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Language is a culture's organized system of symbols, and the means by which culture is transmitted from one generation to the next.

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A child learns a vocabulary and, along with it, the categories that vocabulary divides the world into.

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Language carries culture and shapes it; it is not a neutral container holding it.