Hopi is a Uto-Aztecan language of the Northern branch, spoken by the Hopi people of northeastern Arizona. It became widely known outside linguistics through grammatical studies by Benjamin Lee Whorf, who used it to argue for a strong connection between the structure of a language and the habitual thought of its speakers, the claim now known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of linguistic relativity.
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ISO 639-3 Code Speaker CountApproximate, early-2010s United States census-era estimate; Hopi is one of the few Uto-Aztecan languages in the United States with more than a few thousand living speakers. RegionThe Hopi Reservation, northeastern Arizona, United States 1 Connections
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An influential grammatical study of Hopi tense, aspect and cosmological vocabulary by Whorf is the best known single case cited for the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of linguistic relativity.
Source Language, Thought, and RealityBenjamin Lee Whorf
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Source Ethnologue: Languages of the World
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1. Ethnologue: Languages of the World
Language, Thought, and Reality
Benjamin Lee Whorf, 1956
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