When Daniel L. Everett and his wife Keren Everett started spending 6 to 8 months each year with the Pirahã people of Brazil’s Amazon rain forest in 1977, they hoped to decipher a language that had ...

Some people have a great excuse for being bad at math — their language lacks the words for most numbers, researchers reported Thursday. Members of a tiny, isolated Brazilian tribe have no words for ...

One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do, especially if you don’t even have a word for it. That’s the situation of the Pirahã people, denizens of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest who have no term for ...

During the late 1930s, amateur linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf posed the theory that language can determine the nature and content of thought. But are there concepts in one culture that people of another ...

Members of a tiny, isolated Brazilian tribe have no words for most numbers and seem to have trouble counting, researchers report today. The Piraha tribespeople are clearly intelligent, the U.S.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. DANIEL Everett looks and talks much like the middle-aged American academic he is until he drops a strange word into the conversation. An ...

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.

The Pirahã are an indigenous people, numbering around 700, living along the banks of the Maici River in the jungle of northwest Brazil. Their language, also called Pirahã, is so unusual in so many ...

An anthropological linguist has shown that the language of the Piraha, an Amazonian tribe, lacks number words and as a result the people have a difficult time performing common quantitative tasks. The ...

During the late 1930s, amateur linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf posed the theory that language can determine the nature and content of thought. But are there concepts in one culture that people of another ...