Pirahã (also spelled Pirahá, Pirahán), or Múra-Pirahã, is the indigenous language of the isolated Pirahã people of Amazonas, Brazil. The Pirahã live along...

Pirahã or Pirahán may refer to: Pirahã people, an indigenous people of Brazil Pirahã language, the indigenous language of the Pirahã people This disambiguation...

speak the Pirahã language. They call any other language "crooked head". Members of the Pirahã can whistle their language, which is how Pirahã men communicate...

even as Muran languages. The names are: Bohurá, or Buxwaray, the original form of the name 'Mura'; spoken on the Autaz River Pirahã, or Pirahá, Pirahán, the...

Pirahã language spoken by natives in South American Amazonia prevents its speakers from thinking about quantity and numbers. The speakers of Pirahã are...

suprasegmental. Some languages have only a few phonemes, for example, Rotokas and Pirahã language with 11 and 10 phonemes respectively, whereas languages like Taa...

studying the Pirahã tribe and their language. The Pirahã language is of great interest to linguists, but only a few people apart from the Pirahã tribe are...

are falsified by Pirahã. His 2005 article in Current Anthropology, entitled "Cultural Constraints on Grammar and Cognition in Pirahã", has caused a controversy...

paid more attention to the individual worker. Everett's work on the Pirahã language of the Brazilian Amazon found several peculiarities that he interpreted...

or glottal plosive is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages, produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract or, more precisely...

essential property of human language has been challenged by Daniel Everett on the basis of his claims about the Pirahã language. Andrew Nevins, David Pesetsky...

linguists have attempted to reassess Pirahã to see if it did indeed use recursion. In a corpus analysis of the Pirahã language, linguists failed to disprove...

becomes possible to see that language does not depend on either recursion or grammar. This can be evidenced by the Pirahã language users in Brazil that have...

conceptualized. A small number of languages have no grammatical number at all, even in pronouns. A well known example is Pirahã. Acehnese comes close, but appears...

language in numerical cognition by comparing the performance of native Pirahã language speakers to that of MIT undergraduate students in numeric tasks. For...

possesses one of the world's smallest phoneme inventories. (Only the Pirahã language has been claimed to have fewer.) The alphabet consists of twelve letters...

the Pirahã language of the Brazilian Amazon, a controversial case, found several peculiarities, including what he interpreted as the Pirahã language's lack...

p. 523. Everett, Daniel Leonard (December 1982). "Phonetic rarities in Pirahã". Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 12 (2): 94–96. doi:10...

linguist famed for his work with the Pirahã language and contradicting Noam Chomsky's theories related to language universals Brian Hammel, former Bentley...

bilabial plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in most spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this...

Mura-Pirahã. International Journal of American Linguistics, v. 40 279–282. Steven N. Sheldon (1988) Os sufixos verbais Mura-Pirahã (= Mura-Pirahã verbal...

voiced bilabial trill is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the...

glottal transition or the aspirate, is a type of sound used in some spoken languages that patterns like a fricative or approximant consonant phonologically...

of modern Western civilisation is the "one-two-many" system used by the Pirahã people. In this system, quantities larger than two are referred to simply...

An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its...

alveolar lateral flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this...

languages, plosives and nasal stops could be unreleased after a glottal stop, for example: /pʰaroʔk/ > [pʰaˈ̍rɔʔk̚] /təwaʔm/ > [t̪əˈ̍waʔm̚] In Pirahã...

descriptions as a fallback Numerals and grammatical number of the Pirahã language – Muran language Plant arithmetic – Form of plant cognition Rounding error –...

alveolar nasal is a type of consonantal sound used in numerous spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents dental...

bilabial plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this...