CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Here Whorf analyzed Hopi as having a tense system with a distinction between three tenses: one used for past or present events (which Whorf calls the Factual tense or present-past); one for future events; and one for events that are generally or universally true (here called usitative).

Detailed explanation-2: -One common example of linguistic determinism is the idea that the Inuit have a much more sophisticated understanding of snow than people from other cultures do because Inuktitut has many different words for snow.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hopi is a native North American language in Northeastern Arizona, USA. It is one of 30 languages in the Uto-Aztecan language family. The language is in decline but it is estimated that there are around 5, 000 speakers of Hopi. There are 4 dialects of Hopi; First mesa, Mishongnovi, Shipaulovi and Third Mesa.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Hopi language does not operate on the standard system of Indo-European languages that verbs have three basic time forms (past, present and future). Hopi verbs do not use temporal forms but distinguish the three forms of (a) report, (b) expectation and (c) general statement.