conclusion

Law is in a language, and government is law. When your government, its police, its courts, and its chiefs express themselves in ways you can not understand, you can not know that you are getting justice.

You can not study the law, and can only hope not to violate it. Other primates are smart enough to understand justice, people understand it in a far more sophisticated manner. Culture and community is also mostly related to language. So, without language, a person can not join their community, even if born there.

The obvious question presents itself, namely, should a more powerful nation conquer neighbors, or simply sibject its own people, in an effort to achieve linguistic dominance and temporal grandeur. The national interest of any country includes taking from its neighbors, and if each country was ruled like that it would be anarchy, it should be reviled or attacked.1 To take the language of a people is to destroy much of their culture, and weaken the rest. It all my children were forced to speak Mayan Quechua, they could not understand this work, which I leave in part for them.

I fear that if evil has its way, as it does now, then this theory will be used to buttress the efforts of those who seek to anglicize the globe, or some other group that would seek to impose linguistic homodoxy on humanity. If good has its way, there will be more emphasis on translation of foreign works and bilingualism (notoriously slight in America).

Throughout this worth I've emphasized whether or not two group of people could ommunicate, specifically through language. That if one considers, for example, the Protestant Reforimation, one sees that widespread distribution (see question) illustrate anoth...

People might have the same laws, religion, or philosophy, they might not.

Without a common language, the answer is indeterminable.

We are all Earthlings.

[O]nly through a common language can a group of people act in concert, and therefore have a common history. -- Nicholas Ostler in "Empire of the Word"2

"...porque' la semejanza y conformidad de las palabras casi siempre suelen reconciliar y traer a verdadera unio'n y amistad a los hombres "

"because the likeness and conformity of words almost always tend to reconcile people and bring them true union and friendship"

-- Garcilosa de la Vega, quoting Father Blas Valera, in Commentarios Reales, part I, vii. 3

Footnotes1. Certainly Iraq invaded Kuwait, and certainly Kuwait was stealing oil from Iraqback