Mundurucu numbers

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"The Mundurucu language bears an unusual linguistic phenomenon: The language
includes number words only for the numbers one to five, whereas numerical
values greater than five are labeled with approximate quantifiers like "some"
or "many" (1). Consequently, native speakers of Mundurucu present a rare
opportunity to study the nature of human numerical concepts in the absence of a
robust verbal numerical system."

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Comment on "Log or Linear? Distinct Intuitions of the Number Scale in Western
and Amazonian Indigene Cultures"
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/323/5910/38b