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...

Look up Pirahã in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pirahã or Pirahán may refer to: Pirahã people, an indigenous people of Brazil Pirahã language, the...

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

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...

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...

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...

stop, for example: /pʰaroʔk/ > [pʰaˈ̍rɔʔk̚] /təwaʔm/ > [t̪əˈ̍waʔm̚] 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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

century, the only exception is the Pirahã people who are a subgroup of the Mura who still use their indigenous language Pirahã. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911)....

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...

language, are better able to visually discriminate shades of blue. The Piraha, a tribe in Brazil, whose language has only terms like few and many instead...

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...

people Mlabri people Moriori people Nukak people Onge people Penan people Pirahã people Raute people San people Semang people Sentinelese people Tjimba people...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

trilled affricate, [t̪͡ʙ̥] (written ⟨tᵖ̃⟩ in Everett & Kern) reported from Pirahã and from a few words in the Chapacuran languages Wariʼ and Oro Win. The...

as [mbʙ] and [dʳ]. The Chapakuran language Wariʼ and the Muran language Pirahã have a very unusual trilled phoneme, a voiceless bilabially post-trilled...