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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...
- The
Pirahã (Portuguese pronunciation: [
piɾaˈhɐ̃]) are an
indigenous people of the
Amazon Rainforest in Brazil. They are the sole
surviving subgroup of...
- Look up
Pirahã in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Pirahã or Pirahán may
refer to:
Pirahã people, an
indigenous people of
Brazil Pirahã language, the...
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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...
- both
theories as
outlined in
research among Guugu-Yimidhirr, Hopi, and
Pirahã speakers. Whorf's
conclusion was
largely based upon a
close examination...
- coda [ŋ] that has been
analyzed as the
realization of
nasal vowels. In
Pirahã, men may lack the only
velar consonant.
Other languages lack
simple velars...
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language in
numerical cognition by
comparing the
performance of
native Pirahã language speakers to that of MIT
undergraduate students in
numeric tasks...
- suprasegmental. Some
languages have only a few phonemes, for example,
Rotokas and
Pirahã language with 11 and 10
phonemes respectively,
whereas languages like Taa...
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American linguist and
author best
known for his
study of the
Amazon basin's
Pirahã people and
their language.
Everett is currently[when?]
Trustee Professor...
- Munduruku, in 1788. Of the
original diversity of
Muran languages, only
Pirahã survives today. The Mura are
first attested by the
Portuguese in 1714 in...
