Language is the ability to understand speech and a desire to convey one's feelings and thoughts. The learning of language is truly the child's most remarkable intellectual achievement, and is amazingly accomplished rapidly in a very short time span. By merely living and without any conscious effort the individual absorbs from the environment even a complex cultural like language. Montessori recognized that language begins with observation of sound and the human voice at birth. The evolution of the human language began when communication was done through pictograms and drawings.It then developed into ideograms when pictures began to turn into symbols. Later, these symbols became words, words involved letters, vowels emerged, one symbol came to represent one sound, and an alphabet was created, and then came the alphabet we now use today. And just as language evolved hundreds of thousands of years ago, it also changes with each generation. Unneeded words are dropped and new words come into use. Language rose and continues to rise with the collective intelligence. This also marked the civilisation of mankind. Language differentiates a community from one another but at the time it also unites and binds human being of different races together through a common language. What is language? Language is the ability to understand speech and a desire to convey one’s feelings and thoughts. It is through communication that human beings are able to cooperate with each other to solve common problems. It is through communication based on written and oral language in particular that each generation has passed on its accumulating wisdom to the next. Language, we may say, grow with human thought. The learning of language is truly the child’s most remarkable intellectual achievement and is amazingly accomplished rapidly in a very short time span. By merely living and without any conscious effort the individual absorbs from the environment even a complex cultural like language.

Language development follows specific and observable patterns which vary greatly according to each child’s abilities. The development of their talkative capabilities is greatly influenced by experiences in their environment. There are many occurrences that need to take place preceding reading and writing for a child. A child’s mind is being formed at a swift pace in these early years and is absorbing vast amounts of information without any effort. During the first three years of his life he is able to take in information from his environment – forming the base of his personality and the formation of his mind the child builds himself from what is around him, the environment becomes an important factor. The environment must be prepared, aiding in the process of language development and supporting the child's expanding consciousness. A child will pass through the Sensitive Period of language. During this period, the child will explore his surroundings with tongue and hand, and through these, the child absorbs the qualities of the objects in his environment and seeks to act upon it. He wants to know the name of every object that he sees and touches, and mimic words said by the adults around him. Montessori concluded that the tongue, which man uses for speaking.