Sapir's pupil, Benjamin Lee Whorf, continued the study of American Indian languages.
Sapir 的学生 Benjamin Lee Whorf 继续研究美洲印第安人的语言。
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The decline in the American Indian languages has historical roots: In the mid-19th century, the US government adopted a policy of Americanizing Indian children by removing them from their homes and culture.
Indigenous languages of the Americas are spoken by indigenous peoples from Alaska and Greenland to the southern tip of South America, encompassing the land masses that constitute the Americas. These indigenous languages consist of dozens of distinct language families, as well as many language isolates and unclassified languages.