Deep Language Constructs Pre-Shape Our Perceived Realities

This is an interesting comment in the book "The Horse, The Wheel, and Language" by David W. Anthony stating that language roots themselves shape our very perceptions of reality with conceptual "frameworks" and biases.

It is possible that the resultant loss of linguistic diversity has narrowed and channeled habits of perception in the modern world. For example, all  Indo- Eu ro pe an  languages force the speaker to pay attention to tense and number when  talking about an action: you must specify whether the action is past, pres- ent, or future; and you must specify whether the actor is singular or plural.  It is impossible to use an  Indo- Eu ro pe an verb without deciding on these  categories. Consequently speakers of  Indo- Eu ro pe an languages habitually  frame all events in terms of when they occurred and whether they involved  multiple actors. Many other language families do not require the speaker  to address these categories when speaking of an action, so tense and num- ber can remain unspecied.

He goes on to compare it to the Hopi language embedded constructs.

On the other hand, other language families require that other aspects of reality be constantly used and recognized. For example, when de- scribing an event or condition in Hopi you must use grammatical mark- ers that specify whether you witnessed the event yourself, heard about  it from someone  else, or consider it to be an unchanging truth. Hopi  speakers are forced by Hopi grammar to habitually frame all descrip- tions of reality in terms of the source and reliability of their information.  The constant and automatic use of such categories generates habits in the  perception and framing of the world that probably differ between people  who use fundamentally different grammars.14 In that sense, the spread  of  Indo- Eu ro pe an grammars has perhaps reduced the diversity of human perceptual habits.