Read about the remarkably limited language of the Piraha Tribe of the Amazon in this article - they literally have no concept of number.
Further, "No one paints and there is no art."
"Whatever isn't important in the present is soon forgotten...Very few can remember the names of all four grandparents."
No wonder there's only about 350 of them - could their in-the-moment-only life support more? Very, very doubtful.
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Showing posts with label Piraha people. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Piraha people. Show all posts
Monday, March 7, 2011
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Hyper-Empirical Language and Thinking
Linguistics researcher Daniel Everett talks about the Amazon Basin's Pirahã people's hyper-empirical language. Their grammar would likely be cumbersome when trying to express something complex, but, surely, it would reduce any tendency to think in floating abstractions!
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