Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835), an early pioneer in the philosophy of language, linguistic and educational theory, was not only one of the first European lin

Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835), an early pioneer in the philosophy of language, linguistic and educational theory, was not only one of the first European li

There are more than six thousand human languages, each one unique. For the last five hundred years, people have argued about how important language differences

This text is important both as one of the most interesting contributions to the liberalism of the German Enlightenment, and as the most significant source for t

Wilhelm von Humboldt s writings on language are a mixture of philosophical theorizing about mind and language on the one hand, and on the other hand, specialize