Pirahã
名词 n.
专有名词
英 /ˈpiːɹəhɑː/|/piːɹəˈhɑːn/
英文释义
名词 n.
- An indigenous people of Brazil.
专有名词
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The language of this people, lacking any known relatives, containing few phonemes, and controversially said to possess neither true numbers nor the means of expressing history or employing recursive embedding.
— The Pirahã language challenges simplistic application of Hockett's nearly universally accepted design features of human language by showing that some of these features (interchangeability, displacement, and productivity) may be culturally constrained.
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