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| zerothinking Senior Member Australia Joined 6371 days ago 528 posts - 772 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 25 of 27 20 November 2008 at 9:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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That'd be Piraha. It's a very interesting language because it created a bit of a storm
since it apparently lacks a feature which is meant to be in all languages due to the current theory of Universal Grammar. From memory, it doesn't have subordinate clauses at all. But don't quote me on that. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ennime Tetraglot Senior Member South Africa universityofbrokengl Joined 5903 days ago 397 posts - 507 votes Speaks: English, Dutch*, Esperanto, Afrikaans Studies: Xhosa, French, Korean, Portuguese, Zulu | Message 26 of 27 20 November 2008 at 10:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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are there any piraha resources on the internet? if someone wants to learn?
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| zerothinking Senior Member Australia Joined 6371 days ago 528 posts - 772 votes Speaks: English* | Message 27 of 27 21 November 2008 at 1:18am | IP Logged | ||
No, I'm afraid there's only one or two people who speak it. The language is not considered endangered despite only around 200 speakers. In their culture every other language is considered laughable inferior and they therefore refuse to learn any other language. They are fiercely monolingual. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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