[Lexicog] Words that are absent

[Chaz Mortensen]

David,

I work with a highly individualistic group in Panama (also in Colombia). For the most part, foreign ideas such as those we are faced with in translating the Bible can be communicated. But since you are looking for cases where the culture dictates the lack of certain words, I have one. The individualistic Emberas have no word for "group". They have plenty of words for activities that groups do, they differentiate collective and individualized plural number and so on, but no word for "group".

-Chaz MOrtensen 


 
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