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Language Without Numbers Thursday, June 26, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> General Science   
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An Amazonian language with only 300 speakers has no word to express the concept of "one" or any other specific number, according to a new study from an MIT-led team. The team, led by MIT professor of brain and cognitive sciences Edward Gibson, found that members of the Piraha tribe in remote northwestern Brazil use language to express relative quantities such as "some" and "more," but not precise numbers. (source: web.mit.edu)
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