Аризонадағы Хопи тілінің жаңғыруы мен ерекшеліктері

Uto Aztecan language of Arizona, USA
Despite the apparent decline, Hopi and Navajo both are supported by bilingual education programs in Arizona, and children acquire the Native American languages as their first language. More recently, Hopi language programs for children on the reservation have been implemented.

Many Hopi children are being raised in the language. A comprehensive Hopi English dictionary edited by Emory Sekaquaptewa and others has been published, and a group, the Hopi Literacy Project, has focused its attention on promoting the language. As of 2013, "a pilot language revitalization project, the Hopi Lavayi Nest Model Program, for families with children birth through 5," is being planned for the village of Sipaulovi. In 2004, Mesa Media, a nonprofit organization, was created to help revitalize the language. Since 2019, more recent Hopi language revitalization programs have been reported, involving language immersion for children.

Elision – when the stress shift would cause a clipped vowel not in the first syllable to have a low stress, that vowel is elided. Lenition – initial p becomes v when it becomes internal to a word or when the word is preceded by another word used as an adjectival or an incorporated verbal modifier. Reduplication – stem initial CV, stem final CV and word final V are reduplicated.

The simplest type of sentence in Hopi is simply a subject and a predicate: 'Maana wuupa' (the girl is tall). However, many Hopi sentences also include an object, which is inserted between the subject and the verb. Thus, Hopi is a subject–object–verb language.

Benjamin Lee Whorf, a well known linguist and still one of the foremost authorities on the relationships obtaining between southwestern and Central American languages, used Hopi to exemplify his argument that one's worldview is affected by one's language and vice versa. Among Whorf's best known claims was that Hopi had "no words, grammatical forms, construction or expressions that refer directly to what we call 'time.'" Whorf's statement has been misunderstood to mean that Hopi has no concept of duration or succession of time, but in fact, he meant only that the Hopi have no conception of time as an object or a substance that may be divided and subdivided. Furthermore, according to John A. Lucy, many of Whorf's critics have failed to read his writings accurately, preferring instead to proffer uncharitable caricatures of his arguments. The existence of temporal concepts in the Hopi language was extensively documented by Ekkehart Malotki; other linguists and philosophers are also skeptical of Whorf's broader argument and his findings on Hopi have been disputed or rejected by some.