[PhillipHer]

There is a fundamental difference between linguists and language professors using cellular phones and the scientists and engineers developing and designing cellular networks and phones those work and can be used by consumers.

There is a fundamental difference between scientists, mathematicians, engineers and other professional experts using a particular language and the linguists, language professors and cognitive scientists who are experts in analysing the state of affairs and psychology of languages.

Though interacting, but in each of the above two cases, the two situations are entirely different and primarily unrelated, as they are regarding the expertise in two entirely different fields, which may eventually aid each other in their progress, forming a feedback loop.

Similarly, there is a fundamental difference between a child learning to speak an already existing language and a society developing a language, maintaining it and keeping it alive for future generations as a medium of communication as well as the means of cognition transfers.

However, the ability of a child to learn and speak the language taught by his/her parents at home and/or teachers at school in itself is an evidence of cerebral endowment of the child. While a family dog or cat may have learnt the meaning of a few basic commands given in a particular language, they will never be able to learn and speak the language of the house in their entire lives. The reason is simple, biologically dogs and cats do not posses the required cerebral endowments to learn and speak human languages. For them, the question of developing a structured language, maintaining it and keeping it alive for future generations as a medium of communication as well as the means of cognition transfer may never arise.

Therefore, a child learning to speak a language is a first major step in the journey of his/her cognitive development, which is initiated by his/her parents or guardians using a language they learnt from their parents or guardians. The level of success in the rest of the child's cognitive journey would depend on the availability of valid information and knowledge at that time and in that language, combined with the cerebral endowment of the child to acquire further new and advanced knowledge as he/she grows up. No cognition survives unless it is transferred to, or exchanged with, family members, friends, colleagues and/or other members of society, the same way the past generations did, forming a feedback loop, which is entirely of different nature than the two illustrated and mentioned above.

Thus, it is the succession of cognition transfers that forms the foundation of cognitive development of a child; and all cognition transfers necessarily depend on the level of evolution of the language being used at the time, which itself depends on the cognitive and cerebral endowments of the past generations and the level of evolution of the language being used at that time.

A fully grown-up human may have a priory knowledge of 5 + 7 = 12, but he/she may entirely lack the knowledge or ability to solve an algebraic equation, which a child of 12 or less may well be equipped to solve it simply because he/she learnt it at school. This is a clear example of cognition transfer, which is only possible through a structured language. More involved and advanced mathematical treatments, scientific works and other intellectually demanding professions will require advanced level of conceptual grasps that can be conceptualised and/or symbolised and then expressed for normal usage as well as for formal cognition transfers, which requires a language that is evolved enough to do just that. If the language is not evolved enough to serve that need, further refinement of the language is warranted. The society that does precisely that, reflects the cognitive and cerebral endowments of the society.

However, the switching of a language to the one with rich vocabulary and in which more valid information and knowledge are available and that which aids in enhancing and acquiring new and advanced knowledge may play a major role in shifting the course of cognitive development of a society, as English did for the past generations of India, it currently does for the present generations and it may continue to serve that need for the future generations too, killing most Indian languages over the time.

Perhaps, one more effort to understand and grasp the following may help to come out of the vicious spiral of false analogies, heavy reliance on fallacies and blunders.

Normally; most people with average mental capacity hold language as nothing more than just a medium communication, which is true, only when it comes to the use of a language. But such perception is absolutely false when it comes to grasp the exact developmental and evolutionary course of the language. The notion, that language is nothing more than just a medium of communication, completely falls over when one closely examines the whole evolutionary process involved in the development of a language.

The level of evolution of a language directly reflects the level of cognitive development of the people who developed that particular language.

Here is some more light on the state of affairs between the cognitive endowments of the societies and the development of their languages:

Society, Culture, Nation and such other words, encapsulate the concept of Civilisation, which consequently entails people or public as a whole.

Public broadly divides into two groups: - Intellectuals and General Public or masses

The Intellectual Group further divides into two governing categories: - Honest and Corrupt

Similarly, the General Public also divides into two predominant categories: - Aware and Impetuous

Though, it is normal to expect Intellectuals and General Public somewhere in the middle of the pertinent categories, the following analytical discussion is based on the undiluted, predominant categories listed above.

For a civilisation to come into being and develop, interaction between the intellectuals and general public, no matter how significant or insignificant it may be, is inevitable and this is a fundamental ground upon which the formation of any society can be based. Based on the above four categories of human conducts, the following four sets of social interaction process that can take place among the people can be identified.

Intellectuals -- General Public
1) Honest -- Aware
2) Honest -- Impetuous
3) Corrupt -- Aware
4) Corrupt -- Impetuous

The quality of such interaction may change over time. Nonetheless, it is essentially a very slow process and it takes several generations for a society to identify requisite changes for improvements and advancement in the state of affairs of language development, which is essentially achieved by the quality of the operative feedback loops.

The process begins with some sort of communication between the people. In order to establish any communication, the invention and use of languages was only natural and logical course. For a language to be comprehensible and intelligible to all people involved, the development and grasp of various concepts that could provide means for common mental representations of people, places, objects, events, situations, activities; and other concrete and abstracts terms are absolutely essential. Thus, concepts form the basic building blocks of human thoughts and then become the foundation of mental categories, which people use for classification, in evaluating information, in making decisions and then act accordingly. This way, concepts get firmly planted in language and in turn the entire process forms a strong psychological bond between concept formation and evolution of the language.

Thus:

- The power of language reflects people’s ability to form clear and strong concepts, which in turn depends on the quality of interaction process that is operative among the group of people at a given period of time-frame.

- The level of evolution of language directly reflects the quality of cognitive endowments of the society that speaks that language.

- Language forms the fundamental base of human cognitive process, which develops and evolves over generations and centuries depending on the existing communicable thoughts and knowledge.

- The level of evolution of language directly reflects the level of progress and advancement of the society.

- The level of evolution of language directly reflects the quality of interaction among the various members of the society in question.

The following are the representative examples of the developmental courses of four societies based upon the evolution of their languages

1) Honest -- Aware

Concepts: - Clear
Language: - Evolved
Cognitive Process: - Actualising
Society: - Developed
Feedback: - Generative

2) Honest -- Impetuous

Concepts: - Cogent
Language: - Developed
Cognitive Process: - Effective
Society: - Latent
Feedback: - Restorative

3) Corrupt -- Aware

Concepts: - Vague
Language: - Deceptive
Cognitive Process: - Pretentious
Society: - Crippled
Feedback: - Restorative

4) Corrupt -- Impetuous

Concepts: - Weak
Language: - Slender
Cognitive Process: - Obscured
Society: - Backward
Feedback: - Degenerative

It should not put too much of a strain on the peoples' minds wanting to conclude where both of these languages; in fact, any of the 26 or so Indian languages stand, not in terms of the number of their speakers, but in terms of their abilities to serve the demands and sophistication required in the communication needs of today and future. In nutshell, the information and knowledge generated by the distant past generations, when utilised, enhanced, refined and added to by the cerebral endowments of the past generations, generating information and knowledge that essentially reflected the cognitive endowments of the past generations, which became the foundation of cognitive development for present generations.

Similarly, the information and knowledge generated by present generations, when utilised, enhanced, refined and added to by the cerebral endowments of future generations, generating information and knowledge that would essentially reflect the cognitive endowments of future generations, which would become the foundation of cognitive development for the generations of remote future.

The mechanism by which such transfers of refined, new and advanced cognition can take place is through a language that evolves with time and keeps pace with the changing communication demands and/or needs of the time.

An utter absence of such a language reflects the prevalent lack and/or heedless suppression of cognitive and cerebral endowments of society.