The issues this hypothesis raised not only pertain to the field of linguistics but also had a bearing on Psychology, Ethnology, Anthropology, Sociology, Philosophy, as well as on the natural sciences.

Whorf’s theory originated in his study of Eskimo vocabulary for snow. He argued that because people lived so intimately with the snow of the Arctic, they had developed far more terms to describe it than people of other cultures (Penko).

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