The Piraha, a small tribe of hunter-gatherers in Brazil, have resisted, with breathtaking consistency, all the developments in linguistic abstraction, representational art, number, and time. The language these people speak, the Piraha, doesn't follow the fundamental tenets of linguistics, a finding that would seem to turn the field on its head, undermine basic assumptions about how children learn to communicate, and dethrone the biggest names in the discipline.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/22/books/a-new-book-and-film-about-rare-amazonian-language.html?smid=pl-share
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