Hello, my name is K-Non. I want to talk about language. Language has been a very influential part of my development. Language is two main characteristics. One is language as a communication tool and the other is language as a cultural carrier. Language is unique to a people and so different people have different experiences that are unique to them and feel a cultural resonance to whatever that experience might be. If a lightning was to take a place and it's for the first time, they would have marked it with the sound that they feel is relevant to whether it was positive, negative or neutral. So then that word is recorded in the community's linguistic memory bank and so that's how language develops over time. Different people will record words in their memory bank in different tones and different feelings. That's where language as a cultural carrier comes on. There are always new events in the world and new scenarios and new interactions and therefore it is a growing living thing language. For me, language as a cultural carrier was something that I became aware of when I left my country and came to North America, having lost my ability to communicate, I started to wonder what effect language was having on me and this is when I started to try to learn more about language as a cultural carrier. So the country that I come from took language very seriously. A country of incredible eloquence Somali is known as the Nation of Poets. So language is something that we're fully aware of. We were fortunate even though we fought colonialism and of course waged the longest anti-colonial war in the history of Africa. This country did not allow for any schools speaking in a colonial language to teach the children of Somalia. Therefore learning ourselves in our own language with all the charm of everything history has recorded about our experiences and therefore developing as full human beings. And that's why I think language is a very important and monumental role, a thing in everyone's life and that's language not just as communication but language as a cultural carrier. My name is Canaan and that's my hundred and twenty seconds. Peace!