Not just language - object recognition too - visual aphasia is a thing too.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks is a great book on the topic.
Anecdotally, I've had it (visual aphasia), in a severely dehydrated state (vomiting for a week in 40 degree heat is no joke), I couldn't identify objects (taps = cat) and things were hard to identify as coherent wholes, more a bunch of strange parts, and was hallucinating badly to boot. Couldn't even begin to put words together so can't comment on verbal. Horrible experience but even at the time some part of me that was clinging to sanity was going "hmm, interesting".
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks is a great book on the topic.
Anecdotally, I've had it (visual aphasia), in a severely dehydrated state (vomiting for a week in 40 degree heat is no joke), I couldn't identify objects (taps = cat) and things were hard to identify as coherent wholes, more a bunch of strange parts, and was hallucinating badly to boot. Couldn't even begin to put words together so can't comment on verbal. Horrible experience but even at the time some part of me that was clinging to sanity was going "hmm, interesting".