Edward Sapir specialized in the study of what family of languages?
Athabascan languages, Chinookan languages, and Uto-Aztecan languages
Romance languages
Germanic languages
Sinitic languages
Answer
Edward Sapir was an American anthropologist and linguist who specialized in the study of Athabascan languages, Chinookan languages, and Uto-Aztecan languages. He is best known for his work on the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, which states that the language that a person speaks influences their perception of the world.
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Sapir also worked with which other languages later in his career?
In addition to his linguistic work, Sapir was an early proponent of the importance of what to anthropology?
Which of the following languages did Sapir NOT significantly work with?
Sapir's family emigrated to which country when he was a child?
At which institution did Sapir study Germanic linguistics?
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