Quote Originally Posted by bossel
Of course writing is part of the culture, but it is not the culture. When the writing system changes that does not mean that the culture itself is endangered.
yet, it is not clear in science how much does the language affects the culture. Certainly, it doesn`t make the culture, but besides many other functions it`s also an instrument to preserve many cultural achivements, to
bequeath the culture to the descendants. And when the language is gone, what is passed over. Why then we have such notion as "extinct culture"?

It is also said, that the world view imprinted into the language spire in a culture like a grain which turns into a wheatear...