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The article examines the relationship between linguistic and cultural reality within developing neo-Humboldtianism ideas, in particular, the authors analyze the work of L. Weisgerber “Native language and spirit formation” (1929). Speaking as a follower of the ideas of W. von Humboldt, the German researcher discusses the relationship between culture and language, which is realized through implementation of mental activity. In this regard, L. Weisgerber considers language thinking as a living language-making organism. Weisgerber L. notes that obvious (conceptual) and intuitive levels of birth meanings are implemented in language organism; in this way, establishing the connection between conscious and unconscious exercise of mental activity becomes possible. A higher level of understanding the reality associated with the discovery of cultural content is implemented in this synthesis. No one can speak a language just because of their own language personality, the researcher notes; on the contrary, this language proficiency grows on the basis of belonging to a language community, which forms the cultural content of language. Considering language as a cultural domain, L. Weisgerber evaluates its understanding as the development of internal content of culture, which leads to a homogeneous cognition using homogeneous forms, and thus – to agreement in thinking, which is most clearly expressed in the possibility of mutual understanding. However, L. Weisgerber thinks, that coordination between subjective activity and community should be carried out in two ways, taking into account the static and dynamic characteristics of language: on the one hand, this requires considering language within evaluating it as a sustainable form, and on the other hand, as an organismic form capable for development and constant updating. Native language for the researcher becomes an understanding of the “objective idea”, in relation to which the spiritual content of human existence environment is built.

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