They certainly do. But languages are also very elastic. If you speak modern German, for example, you'll find that it's very similar to modern American English i

They certainly do. But languages are also very elastic. If you speak modern German, for example, you'll find that it's very similar to modern American English in thought and expression. But this was not true of late 19th-century German and 19th-century English. There has unfortunately been substantial thought convergence due to mass communication. If all you speak is English, you may also find that the current dialectical forms are all much weaker and samey compared to the older forms. Anyway, in resurrected ancient languages, this modern samey-ness is a problem. Go read Latin Wikipedia, for example. It's much more like reading modern English authors (though with Latin words and grammar) than it is like reading classical authors. -- I add a natural language translation (from ChatGPT) of your statement for anyone who doesn't share your lexica: > "Maybe, unless some version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is correct, and language—along with its grammar, sounds, and other aspects—creates an inescapable worldview that can't be dominated."