Whorf attacks the universalism based on European ethnocentrism, seeds linguistic features particular to "primitive languages," and tries to construct universals on such new basis.
沃尔夫批判以欧洲中心主义为基础的普遍主义，寻求语言思维之特性，进而在新的基础上，建立人类共同的语言和思维。
There are many people whose cultures are undeveloped, but the languages they speak are by no means primitive.
有许多人他们的文化不发达，但他们说的语言绝不是原始的。
Many evolutionary linguists believe that all human languages have descended from a single, primitive language, which itself evolved from the grunts and noises of the lower animals.
许多进化论语言学家相信所有的人类语言都来源于单一的、原初的语言。而这种原初的语言则从其他动物的呼噜和噪声中演化出来。
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