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Translation E-Buzz arrow Translation arrow The language of the Brazilian Pirahã tribe
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Written by Evan C Norman   
Monday, 08 May 2006
When researchers began to study the language of the Brazilian Pirahã tribe, they discovered a people who had no words for numbers, hardly any words associated with time, no descriptions of colors, and no subordinate clauses. Linguists had to rethink many accepted notions of language universals, and came to some interesting conclusions about how language is formed, as well as how language shapes the way we perceive and interact with the world.
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