Larger set of translations may shed light on an idiosyncratic Amazonian language

Thursday, March 10, 2016 - 07:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A heated controversy in linguistics in recent years involves a few hundred people deep in the Amazonian rainforest: the Pirahã tribe of Northern Brazil. Their idiosyncratic language has raised questions about how widely human languages share certain characteristics.

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