An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Deep in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil, linguists are trying unravel the structure of a tribal language that might be radically different than ...

One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do, especially if you don’t even have a word for it. That’s the situation of the Pirahã people, denizens of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest who have no term for ...

Editor's Note: This article was originally published at ScienceNordic. “The weirdest language in the world is without a doubt Pirahã,” says Rolf Theil. The linguistics professor at the University of ...

It's hard to describe Daniel Everett, so here are some facts about him. He's American. He was a Christian missionary. His goal in life was to tell people about Jesus. He spent 25 years, on and off, in ...

When Daniel Everett went to live among the Pirahã people in the late 1970s, he was committed to two sets of orthodox beliefs. One came from evangelical Christianity (he and his wife Keren were ...

The Pirahã are an “ordinary sort of folk,” says Philip Oltermann, a contributor to the British magazine. “They enjoy chatting and socializing,” as well as “a drink or two -- not unlike your average ...