Who influenced Sapir to study Native American languages?
Franz Boas
Alfred Kroeber
Leonard Bloomfield
None of the above
Answer
Franz Boas, a German-American anthropologist, influenced Edward Sapir to study Native American languages. Boas was a pioneer in the field of anthropology, and he believed that studying Native American languages could provide insights into the cultures of the people who spoke them. Sapir agreed with Boas's belief, and he spent much of his career studying Native American languages.
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