Language is a barrier. How do Gulliver and the Lilliputians interact with and understand each other.
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Language is a recurring theme in Gulliver's Travels as he voyages to other nations that are vastly different and quite imaginary. In particular, when Gulliver travels to the land of the Houyhnhnms, he has to learn the language of the native horse-people. This language is vastly different from English, which is a critique of the colonialist sentiments typically expressed in English culture and other conquering cultures. The tendency is for cultures who do not speak the same language to consider the other "less educated." For instance, historically, the term Barbarian comes from a group of people who's language was said to sound like babbling the phrase "Bar-Bar" over and over again, and they were considered less intelligent. In the novel, Swift explores the idea that people who have an entirely different lexicon are also intelligent and capable of reason, which was, for that time, a relatively foreign concept.