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• 11 Jun 06
  

  ethomsen

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• 14 May 06
  

  aj

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• 11 May 06
  

  Chrys R

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  Daniel Rourke

  The Pirahã people have no history, no descriptive words and no subordinate clauses. That makes their language one of the strangest in the world -- and also one of the most hotly debated by linguists.

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• 10 May 06
  

  Peter Tupper

  The mothers also don't tell their children fairy tales -- actually nobody tells any kind of stories. No one paints and there is no art.

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• 09 May 06
  

  Amy

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  • Linguistics generally focuses on what idioms across the world have in common. But the Pirahã language -- and this is what makes it so significant -- departs from what were long thought to be essential features of all languages.
• 03 May 06
  

  m cassimatis

  rw:Amazonian language missing great chunks of syntax/semantics (Spiegel) {Chomsky} // spare. only 3 pronouns, no subordinate clauses.

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  Jeff Carroll

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