When Daniel L. Everett and his wife Keren Everett started spending 6 to 8 months each year with the Pirahã people of Brazil’s Amazon rain forest in 1977, they hoped to decipher a language that had ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Deep in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, along the banks of the Mai ci river and shaded from the scorching sunlight by a verdant canopy of hanging branches, the linguist Dan Everett is going back ...

During the late 1930s, amateur linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf posed the theory that language can determine the nature and content of thought. But are there concepts in one culture that people of another ...

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 ...