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You're basically talking about Sapir-Whorf here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity

>The hypothesis is in dispute, with many different variations throughout its history.[2] The strong hypothesis of linguistic relativity, now referred to as linguistic determinism, is that language determines thought and that linguistic categories limit and restrict cognitive categories. This was a claim by some earlier linguists pre-World War II;[3] since then it has fallen out of acceptance by contemporary linguists.




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