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May 15, 2006
Living without numbers or time
Brazil's Pirahã tribe do not have language that can explain time. They have no history and no numbers - their creationist myth is "Everything is the same, things always are." By studying them linguistic theorists are hoping to find the answer to whether the widely held belief that there is a 'universal grammar' in Human language is correct or not.
Posted by miosite at May 15, 2006 2:33 PM
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