The article discusses Heidegger's thought on the essence of language, taking as the guiding thread of the discussion his reflections in the book A caminho da linguagem. He emphasizes that to understand Heidegger's statements it is necessary to assume that the saying of language is not a saying about being, reality, things, but a saying of the experience of being. The core of the text is, therefore, centered on the question of what is language as an experience of a saying from experience. Faced with the philosophical tradition that seeks to base the principles for saying experience in order to ensure the correspondence between language and reality, Heidegger proposes a saying from experience and, thus, a saying that is itself experience of experience.