Well, language is not really required for thinking and conscious experiences, a huge chunk of people don't even have an internal monologue, and some (that'd be me) don't have any "byproducts" of thought process.
Though there are recent experiments showing that unconscious brain retains language processing abilities [1], so the two might be as well independent systems
Though there are recent experiments showing that unconscious brain retains language processing abilities [1], so the two might be as well independent systems
[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10448-0