‘Anumeric’ people: What happens when a language has no words for numbers?
By Caleb Everett, Andrew Carnegie Fellow, Professor of Anthropology, University of Miami. A Pirahã family. Caleb Everett, CC BY-SA Numbers do not exist in all cultures. There are numberless hunter-gatherers embedded deep in Amazonia, living along branches of the world’s largest river tree. Instead of using words for precise quantities, these people rely exclusively on terms…
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