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

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...

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

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...

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...