The Hopi Language Has Verb Tenses That Differ from Those

question 16

Multiple Choice

The Hopi language has verb tenses that differ from those of English. Benjamin Whorf's linguistic research among the Hopi people suggested that this meant they have what?

• A) a worldview where past and present represent lived reality and the future is hypothetical
• B) an ability to retain their cultural traditions by only having one dialect
• C) a worldview that keeps past, present, and future as entirely separate concepts
• D) the same conceptual idea of time as everyone else, with different ways of describing it

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