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An Cànan Dìomhair/Amazon Code

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A look at the Pirahã tribe and its strange language.

Documentary on the Pirahã tribe, of the Amazon, which have one of the strangest languages in the world.

Ann an sgìre iomallach dhen Amason, tha an trì cheud neach mu dheireadh de threubh Piraha a' fuireach. Tha cànan air leth annasach aca: chan eil facail aca airson da han no àireamhan; chan eil guth aca air na th' air a dhol seachad no na tha ri teachd - agus tha seo air mòran deasbad a dhèanamh am measg luchd-cànain!

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 cànan a thuigse, agus mus robh e deiseil san Amason, b' e neach-cànain a bh' ann fhèin,
a' fàs ainmeil air sgàth a bheachdan connsachail a bha a' dol an aghaidh bheachdan gràmar Noam Chomhsky.

In a remote region of the Amazon live the last 300 members of the Pirahã 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 Pirahã as a Christian missionary exploring the Amazon basin.

For 30 years, he attempted to understand the near indecipherable Pirahã language - and re-invented himself as a linguist, grabbing headlines by challenging Noam Chomsky's theory of universal grammar.

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