Documentary on the Pirah茫 tribe, of the Amazon, which have one of the strangest languages in the world.
Ann an sg矛re iomallach dhen Amason, tha an tr矛 cheud neach mu dheireadh de threubh Piraha a' fuireach. Tha c脿nan air leth annasach aca: chan eil facail aca airson da han no 脿ireamhan; chan eil guth aca air na th' air a dhol seachad no na tha ri teachd - agus tha seo air m貌ran deasbad a dh猫anamh am measg luchd-c脿nain!
Anns na naoi-ceud-deug is seachdadan, choinnich Daniel Everett muinntir Piraha, 's e na mhiseanaraidh as an Amason. Airson trichead bliadhna, rinn e an t-oidhirp an c脿nan a thuigse, agus mus robh e deiseil san Amason, b' e neach-c脿nain a bh' ann fh猫in,
a' f脿s ainmeil air sg脿th a bheachdan connsachail a bha a' dol an aghaidh bheachdan gr脿mar Noam Chomhsky.
In a remote region of the Amazon live the last 300 members of the Pirah茫 tribe. They have one of the strangest languages in the world: they have no words for colours and numbers, no concern for the past nor the future - making it one of the hottest debates ever among linguists! In the 1970's, Daniel Everett first met the Pirah茫 as a Christian missionary exploring the Amazon basin.
For 30 years, he attempted to understand the near indecipherable Pirah茫 language - and re-invented himself as a linguist, grabbing headlines by challenging Noam Chomsky's theory of universal grammar.
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