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<div class="colspacer morelink"><font size="3">Matéria da revista NewScientist</font></div>
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<div class="colspacer morelink"><font size="3"><strong>A people lost for words</strong></font></div>
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<div><font size="1">18 March 2006</font></div>
<div><span class="author"><font size="1">Kate Douglas</font></span></div>
<div><span class="author"></span><font size="1">Magazine issue 2543 </font></div>
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<h5>They've no myths, numbers or colours and few words for past or present - no wonder the Pirahã people defy our most cherished ideas about language</h5></div>
<p>"HOW was your world created?" asks the young anthropologist in Portuguese. He awaits the translation into Pirahã. "The world is created," replies one of the assembled men in his own language. "Tell me how your god made all this?" the anthropologist presses on. "All things are made," comes the answer. The interview lurches on for a few more minutes, until suddenly, the question-and-answer session is overtaken by a deluge of excited banter as the assembled Pirahã vie to be heard.
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<p>"I've cracked it," says the anthropologist as he hands his tape recording to Dan Everett a few weeks later. "Here is the Pirahã creation myth." Everett is dubious. In the past three decades, the linguist from the University of Manchester, UK, has spent a total of seven years living with the Pirahã in the Amazon rainforest and is one of just three outsiders, along with his ex-wife and a missionary ...
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<div class="straptext highlight">(Acesso ao conteúdo integral do artigo -- 2532 palavras -- é restrito a assinantes da revista.)</div>
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