Why the world looks different in other languages

Linguists and philosophers have for centuries debated the place of language in how humans think about their world. While there appears to be a general agreement that language is a crucial window to reality, the extent to which it can actually shape our conceptualization of reality has been a contentious issue. One of the debates on this issue centres around the principle of linguistic relativity, also known as the Sapir- Whorf hypothesis, which states that the world looks significantly different in different languages, and that humans understand their world in terms of the conceptual categories made available to them by their languages