name Pirahã is an exonym; the Pirahã call themselves the Híaitíihi or Hiáitihí, roughly translated as "the straight ones". The Pirahã speak the Pirahã language...

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...

Pirahã or Pirahán may refer to: Pirahã people, an indigenous people of Brazil Pirahã language, the indigenous language of the Pirahã people This disambiguation...

Pirahã language spoken by natives in South American Amazonia prevents its speakers from thinking about quantity and numbers. The speakers of Pirahã are...

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...

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...

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...

stop, for example: /pʰaroʔk/ > [pʰaˈ̍rɔʔk̚] /təwaʔm/ > [t̪əˈ̍waʔm̚] In Pirahã, the only surviving dialect of the Mura language, there is a special register...

this trait results from Pirahã culture emphasizing present-moment concrete matters. Other linguists have responded that Pirahã does in fact have clausal...

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...

relax humans (see the use of gentle music in music therapy, lullabies). In Pirahã, the only surviving dialect of the Mura language, there is a special register...

organizers paid more attention to the individual worker. Everett's work on the Pirahã language of the Brazilian Amazon found several peculiarities that he interpreted...

(August–October 2005). "Cultural Constraints on Grammar and Cognition in Pirahã: Another Look at the Design Features of Human Language". Current Anthropology...

makes frequent use of ⟨x⟩ in native words as well as in loanwords). In Pirahã, ⟨x⟩ symbolizes the glottal stop /ʔ/. In Polish, ⟨x⟩ was used prior to 19th...

yellow, orange, and red) and hui (black, violet, blue, and green). In the Pirahã language, there appear to be no color terms beyond describing lightness...

on the Pirahã language of the Brazilian Amazon, a controversial case, found several peculiarities, including what he interpreted as the Pirahã language's...

South Asia; it is a component of the perahan tunban Pirahã people, an indigenous people of Brazil Pirahã language, their language This disambiguation page...

Nukak-Makú Ojibwe Oshara tradition Oxbow complex Paiute Paleo-Arctic tradition Pirahã Plains Indians Plano culture Puelche Red Ocher people Red Paint People Sioux...

e.g. Arabic ([d̠ʒ]), most dialects of Spanish ([t̠ʃ]), and Thai ([tɕ]). Pirahã and Wari' have a dental stop with bilabial trilled release [t̪ʙ̥]. Although...

initial vowel (Ala ‒> [Ɂala]). See Polish phonology#Glottal stop. Mura Pirahã baíxi [ˈmàí̯ʔì] 'parent' Romance Portuguese Vernacular Brazilian ê-ê [ˌʔe̞ˈʔeː]...

been challenged by Daniel Everett on the basis of his claims about the Pirahã language. Andrew Nevins, David Pesetsky and Cilene Rodrigues are among many...

Everett—deny that recursion is universal, citing certain languages (e.g. Pirahã) which allegedly lack this feature. The ability to ask questions is considered...

Conference, International Pragmatics Association, 2005 (abstract) Parataxis in Pirahã, Mark Liberman of the University of Pennsylvania, casual discussion on Language...

languages where the only h-like sound is nasalized are Krim, Lisu, and Pirahã. More rarely, a language will contrast oral /h/ and nasal /h̃/. Two such...

The total phonemic inventory in languages varies from as few as 9–11 in Pirahã and 11 in Rotokas to as many as 141 in ǃXũ. The number of phonemically distinct...

of modern Western civilisation is the "one-two-many" system used by the Pirahã people. In this system, quantities larger than two are referred to simply...

suprasegmental. Some languages have only a few phonemes, for example, Rotokas and Pirahã language with 11 and 10 phonemes respectively, whereas languages like Taa...

borrowed their numbers from Chinese. An extreme case is represented by Pirahã, a Muran language of South America, which has been controversially claimed...

Yidiny (Pama-Nyungan) morphology, Tundra Yukaghir (Yukhagir) semantics, Pirahã (Mura) phonology, Muna (Austronesian) syntax, and telepathy based on English...

require most of the body to be covered, to tribal societies such as the Pirahã or Mursi where full nakedness is the norm. There is generally no implication...