what came first thought or language

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…showed last 75 words of 616 total…to traditional concepts. The system existing in our heads is much more complex and great than the system of language; language is a tool for organizing thinking because it often bears the concepts of thought. If language came before thought then thinking would not be possible without the language based concepts. This means that language would have to be the basis of thinking and not just the means of communicating. Therefore, thought came before language.