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[QUOTE]Originally posted by DD'eDeN: [QB] Pop. linguistics Books: Tom Wolfe, Kingdom of Speech Dan Everett, Don't Sleep, There are Snakes Per Everett, the Piraha tribe of Amazon have an unusually simple language, fewest letters, no colors, no counting, no recursion (inserting a phrase into a sentence eg. "I saw him in the park". would be: I was in the park. I saw him. I found this of interest: A tonal language can not be whispered, but can be whistled. Piraha has two tones, as does Yoruba, Piraha is indeed whistled, and sung, as well as spoken, but not written except in translation. Everett was a missionary, eventually he converted out, became a linguist. Wolfe wrote about Everett's story and Noam Chomsky's reaction. "Don't sleep, there are snakes" is the equivalent to saying "Good night, sweet dreams". https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Sleep-There-Are-Snakes/dp/0307386120 https://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Speech-Tom-Wolfe/dp/0316404624/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0/132-1171257-7372165?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=XNGQYXNZGTSZXF13PZE7 [/QB][/QUOTE]
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