A Remote Amazonian tribe could fundamentally change our understanding of language

This article talks about the recent discovery of the language of a remote tribe in the Amazon that may be drastically different from any other known languages. A researcher from MIT teamed up with one of the few non-native Piraha speakers in the world to try to analyze the differences. This research may change our understanding of how language works and how it developed.

Posted by Matt McLaughlin on March 11, 2016

Tags:
Race,Ethnicity;
Globalization;
Linguistic Relativity

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