Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.
Language is froth on the surface of thought.
Language, after all, is organic. You can't force words into existence. You can't force new meanings into words. And some words can't or won't or shouldn't be laundered or neutered. Language develops naturally.
Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.
When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge.
Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.
Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they have reactions like ours that indicate that someone's home.