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True or False: Edward Sapir was the first to provide evidence for the classification of the Na-Dene languages.

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Edward Sapir was an American anthropologist, linguist, and psychologist who first proposed the classification of the Na-Dene languages. He did this by studying the language structure of the Navajo and Apache languages, and he found that they shared many similarities. This led him to believe that they were once part of the same language family.
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