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Thursday, May 11, 2006

Take this - all language jingists

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.

4 Comments:

At 11:30 AM, Blogger Jugular Bean said...

Psyched! But this Daniel Everett's story of single handly disarming a tribe sounds slightly, you know....fake!

 
At 11:20 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I demand that it be made a 'classical language', on par with Thamil!

 
At 3:06 AM, Blogger JP said...

Fascinating stuff, thanks for the link!

 
At 8:26 AM, Blogger Finny Forever said...

bean: ye that was pretty sad
murug: what can i say
jp: yo

 

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