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anthropological linguistics dialectology

Key People

Lydia Cabrera

Cuban author and ethnologist

Benjamin Lee Whorf

Benjamin Lee Whorf

American linguist

Wilhelm, Baron von Humboldt, oil painting by F. Krüger

Wilhelm von Humboldt

German language scholar

Edward Sapir and colleagues from the University of Chicago

Edward Sapir

American linguist