MIT-led team finds language without numbers
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 17:14
in Psychology & Sociology
An Amazonian language has no word to express the concept of "one" or any other specific number, according to a new study from an MIT-led team. Only 300 people speak the language, all of the Piraha tribe in remote northwestern Brazil.
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