Without the concept, the thing may not exist?

See Development idea of the day: Vocalary enhancement



'Arabic, for example, can convey business, merchant, etc., in a word, but it takes a lengthy explanation to capture ‘entrepreneur’. After the recent success in working with Ministries and linguistic experts to invent an Arabic word for “corporate governance”, which also did not exist until the recently approved “hawkamat ash-sharikat”, CIPE and its Egyptian partners are now raising the issue of creating Arabic terminology that captures the breadth of meaning in entrepreneurship. This is really a process of concept formation. It can be lengthy and seem esoteric, but it is essential to moving forward on these issues — if there is no common word or language for a topic, then the concept itself does not adequately exist in society.'

As something of a Wittgensteinian myself, I'm attracted by the implied argument here: all of our thoughts can be expressed in a public language, and if an important word does not exist in a given society's language, then the idea associated with that word can't really take off an that society. If there is no word for entrepeneurship in Arabic, then in some important sense there is no entrepeneurship in Arabic-speaking societies.