whetherthelanguagesoftheancientAmericanpeopleswereusedforexpressingabstractuniversalconceptscanbeclearlyansweredinthecaseofNahuatl.我不明白这个whether是什么意思,哪个是从句,哪个是主句的动词.

Question

whether the languages of the ancient American peoples were used for expressing abstract universal concepts can be clearly answered in the case of Nahuatl.
我不明白这个whether是什么意思,哪个是从句,哪个是主句的动词.

Answer 1

whether the languages of the ancient American peoples were used for expressing abstract universal concepts 是主语部分,也就是说whether引导的是主语从句can be clearly answered是谓语部分, in the case of Nahuatl是状语.
这句话的意思是：不论是古代美洲民族的语言是不是用来表达抽象的普遍的概念,这一点在纳瓦特尔的事例中清楚地得到了回答.