Language and Identity

To me, there is a defenite relationship between language and identity. In simplest terms, the language you speak is what identifies who you are and where you may be from. However, the relationship between the two can get way deeper. For example, the language you use in your writing is how you are looked upon and identified, as an author and person. The words and phrases and ideas you portray in what you say on paper is your voice, your specific language. When people read it, that is how they will see you, label you and be able to identify you.
Your language can reveal many things about you such as race, gender, age, occupation, level of education and culture. But like I said before, it can be twisted into different meanings as well. It makes you you. It has to do with identity because you are your own identity, and thats the best way I can put it. It's almost like the phrase "you are what you eat." Except with this, you are what you say and write. Your language (literally or metaphorically) constructs your identity. When used, it forms a sense of who we are. Thats how I see it, and thats how I compare the two as a relationship.