Autopoiesis

Language enables humans to communicate about many things. We can assume that communicating about spatial locations and movements is one area that has particular significance in the evolution of language and languages. Possibly it is the most fundamental area. My own experience of speaking different languages led me to search for answers to how different languages can affect our spatial understanding. When talking in different languages I have always had this strange feeling of being somehow “different”, as if you slightly change your personality. My native language is Lithuanian. I have learned Russian since the age of five, English from the age of seven and now Norwegian, which I have used fluently for the last 14 years. Just compare the sound of these words: ERDVE, ROM, SPACE, PROSTRANSTVO. It is the sound of it, the rhythm but also the meaning, which seems to lack the total overlapping. Could it be that language has something to do with how we perceive space?