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True or False: Edward Sapir demonstrated that the methods of comparative linguistics could not be applied to indigenous languages.

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Edward Sapir did not demonstrate that the methods of comparative linguistics could not be applied to indigenous languages. In fact, he was one of the first to apply these methods to indigenous languages, and he found that they could be used to reveal a great deal about the history and structure of these languages.
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