1 : a member of an American Indian people of northeastern Arizona. 2 : the Uto-Aztecan language of the Hopi people.

What language do the Hopi Indians speak? Almost all Hopi people speak English today, but most of them also speak their native Hopi language. Hopi is a complex language with long words. It isn’t related to other Pueblo languages at all, but is actually a distant relative of the Aztec language.

The use of Hopi has gradually declined over the course of the 20th century….Hopi language.

Edward Sapir and his pupil Benjamin Lee Whorf developed the hypothesis that language influences thought rather than the reverse. The strong form of the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis claims that people from different cultures think differently because of differences in their languages.

The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is controversial on many levels, starting with its name. Linguists Benjamin Lee Whorf and Edward Sapir were close collaborators in the first decades of the 20th century, but they never actually published a hypothesis together about language and cognition.

An example of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is how sexist language influences the way in which our society views men and women. For instance, we use words like ‘fireman,’ ‘policeman,’ and ‘male nurse.

Examples of Dialect:

• A Northern American might say, “hello.”
• A Southern American might say, “howdy.”
• This is an example of the differences in dialect.

There is an intuitive problem in Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. For example, many languages mark the difference between how you have your eye versus how you have a chair. This alienable versus inalienable possessive marking is very common.