Noun
anthropologist and linguist; studied languages of North American Indians (1884-1939)
Source: WordNetBenedict also started a friendship with Edward Sapir who encouraged her to continue the study of the relations between individual creativity and cultural patterns. Source: Internet
Boas: error Boas' student Edward Sapir reached back to the Humboldtian idea that languages contained the key to understanding the world views of peoples. Source: Internet
Edward Sapir had commented on a connection between Na-Dené and Sino-Tibetan.sfn A narrower binary Dené–Yeniseian family has recently been well-received, though not conclusively demonstrated. Source: Internet
Wilhelm von Humboldt declared in 1820: error Boas and Sapir Franz Boas Edward Sapir The idea that some languages are superior to others and that lesser languages maintained their speakers in intellectual poverty was widespread in the early 20th century. Source: Internet