Jack Vance

Jack Vance wrote The Languages of Pao (1958), one of the first sf books to explore the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.

References:

• Bee, Robert (2008) ”Linguistics, Cultural Engineering, and World Building in Languages of Pao and Babel-17”
• Delany, Samuel R (1966) Babel-17
• Vance, Jack (1958) The Languages of Pao
• Watson, Ian (1973) The Embedding
• Whorf, Benjamin Lee (1956) in John B. Carroll (ed.) Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf