English Explanatory Dictionary

Pirahã

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An indigenous people of Brazil.
name
  1. 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.

Pronunciation

/ˈpiːɹəhɑː/ /piːɹəˈhɑːn/

Word forms

Pirahã Piraha Pirahá Pirahan

Related words

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