Does culture have any major impact on language? Would Greek Culture and myth have been different if the Greek language were completely different than what was spoken at the time?

by TheDungeonCrawler

What do I mean by this. I'm trying to write up some stuff for my fantasy setting, and for the dominant human culture I'm using German and Arabic (two different cultures that evolved alongside one another) but I wanted to use a Greek structure to the theology of this civilization. Would the German language, in this case, influence the theology and vice versa? Would the Greek Pantheon look any different if they spoke Mandarin instead of Ancient Greek? Sorry if this is the wrong place for this, I hadn't thought to check if AskLinguists exists.

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Edit: A commenter below asked for a clarification as to whether or not I'm referring to linguistic determinism or (if I'm understanding this correctly) differences in dialect. I'm referring to the first one.

ilBrunissimo

Can you clarify?

Are you asking about linguistic determinism? (In a nutshell, it’s the theory that posits that the syntax and lexicon of one’s first language structures your perceptions of the world, how you develop thoughts, and how you share them, which in turn are heard and understood by people with the same filters.)

Or are you asking about the significant dialect differences among Greek-speakers of antiquity and the sociological impact of that?

Happy to explicate either!