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Hopi semanticsessay 1979 • Voegelin, Carl F. et al.
Hopi • North America > Southwest and Basin
In his analysis of Hopi semantics in 1940, Benjamin Lee Whorf, a noted linguist, spoke of the language in terms of what he called “linguistic relativity,” a phrase used to refer to Hopi as a language clearly differentiated from English, for example, ...