Language and the Organisation of the Built Environment‪.‬

Language is not only the most important tool in regard to human communication ability but also contains many important concepts and values that a particular culture has. These concepts and values can be seen as adaptive features which allow particular cultural groups to achieve their goals and galvanize a sense of a united identity and institutional structure. Language when it is seen this way can be treated as analogous to a mirror through which we see the values, ideas and priorities of a given society. The examples that follow are intended to demonstrate that language is a complex reflective system embedded within cultural traditions. This is a relationship that is not an isolated or independent system. It represents the relationship that exists between humans and the environment. Cultural existence, sustainability, and survival depend on reference to access and understanding the world correctly. Such an understanding shows that the categoric and semantic extension of particular languages has an acute adaptive or evolutionary edge.