Language vs. Thought

A question that came up in class one day was what comes first, a thought or a language? Can you have a thought without knowing a language? I definitely believe that yes, you can have a thought without knowing a languge. A child thinks before they can speak a language, although they also have understanding of a language before they can speak it. However, I think that you can have thoughts in the form of pictures rather than with words, you percieve things from the moment you are born, and from that time on, you must therefore have thoughts of the things you percieve. Though it may be difficult to convey your thought without a language, I don't think you need the language to have the thought. Certainly though, a language makes it easier to convey your thoughts to other people even though language can easily be misunderstood.
A thought must have come first because someone had to think up the very first language, even if it was pictures drawn on a cave, it was still a language. And from there, the languages grew and became the words that I am using right now. Language is a very useful tool though it is still easily misunderstood and there are many different forms of language and the definition of a language is not a sure thing, it is still a useful tool which resulted from a thought.


Now I'm not even sure if this made any scence to anyone other than me..But I hope so!