Pirahã Language: Brazil’s Challenge to Modern Linguistics

Pirahã, a hunter-gatherer tribe numbering around 700 as of 2013 and 2018, lives along the Maici River in the Amazon Forest of North-western Brazil. Pirahã, or Múra- Pirahã, is the indigenous language of the isolated Pirahã people. They are unique among Amazonian people remaining monolingual. Pirahã people have resolutely avoided any cultural dilution, implicitly learning
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