individuals. The Pirahã people do not call themselves Pirahã but instead the Híaitíihi or Hiáitihí, roughly translated as "the straight ones." The Pirahã speak the...
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Pirahã or Pirahán may refer to: Pirahã people, an indigenous people of Brazil Pirahã language, the indigenous language of the Pirahã people This disambiguation...
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Pirahã (also spelled Pirahá, Pirahán), or Múra-Pirahã, is the indigenous language of the Pirahã people of Amazonas, Brazil. The Pirahã live along the Maici...
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Linguistic determinism (section Pirahã)
Pirahã language spoken by natives in South American Amazonia prevents its speakers from thinking about quantity and numbers. The speakers of Pirahã are...
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Daniel Everett (category Linguists of Pirahã)
could continue to study Pirahã. Everett focused on the theories of Noam Chomsky. His master's thesis, Aspectos da Fonologia do Pirahã, was written under the...
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phonetically) several Skou languages (Wutung, a dialect of Vanimo, and Bobe). In Pirahã, men may lack the only velar consonant. Other languages lack simple velars...
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Mura language (category Articles containing Pirahã-language text)
the original form of the name 'Mura'; spoken on the Autaz River Pirahã, or Pirahá, Pirahán, the name the remaining dialect goes by Yahahí, also spelled...
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studying the Pirahã tribe and their language. The Pirahã language is of great interest to linguists, but only a few people apart from the Pirahã tribe are...
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No audible release (section Pirahã)
stop, for example: /pʰaroʔk/ > [pʰaˈ̍rɔʔk̚] /təwaʔm/ > [t̪əˈ̍waʔm̚] In Pirahã, the only surviving dialect of the Mura language, there is a special register...
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this trait results from Pirahã culture emphasizing present-moment concrete matters. Other linguists have responded that Pirahã does in fact have clausal...
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