Sapir's family emigrated to which country when he was a child?
United States of America
United Kingdom
Canada
Australia
Answer
Sapir was born in Germany in 1884, but his family immigrated to the United States of America when he was just a child. He studied linguistics at Columbia University and went on to become one of the most influential linguists of the 20th century.
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