Full Idea
Language first of all is a classification and arrangement of the stream of sensory experience which results in a certain world-order.
Gist of Idea
Language arranges sensory experience to form a world-order
Source
Benjamin Lee Whorf (Punctual and segmentive Hopi verbs [1936], p.55)
Book Reference
Whorf,Benjamin Lee: 'Language Thought and Reality', ed/tr. Carroll,John B. [MIT 1979], p.55
A Reaction
This is only true to a limited degree. See Davidson's 'On the very idea of a conceptual scheme'. All humans share a world-order, to some extent.