Презентация "Piraha and their language"

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The Pirahã are indigenous people of the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil. They number 420 individuals. The Pirahã people do not call themselves Pirahã but instead the Hi'aiti'ihi , roughly translated as "the straight ones."

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Pirahã is the root language of the isolated Pirahã of Amazonas, Brazil. The Pirahã live on the banks of the Maici River, tributary of the Amazon River.

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. They are hunter-gatherers.

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The Piraha speak the Piraha Language (the root language of the isolated tribe). Members of the Piraha actually can whistle their language, which is how its men communicate when hunting in the jungle. The language has only seven consonants and three vowels. The people do not count and the language does not have words for precise numbers. There is a disputed theory that the language has no color terminology.

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Pirahã is the only surviving dialect of the Mura language, the rest died out in the last few centuries, as most groups of the Mura people have switched to Portuguese.

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The Pirahã language is one of the simplest languages known all other the world Front Back Close I O Open A

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Pirahã build simple huts. They make implements,woven palm-leaf bags, bows, and arrows. The Piraha take short naps of 15 minutes to two hours through the day and night and rarely sleep through the night.

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Sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirahã https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Pirahã_language http://icdn.ensonhaber.com/resimler/galeri/amazonda-dil-kullanmayan-en-mutlu-kabile-piraha.jpg http://www.gazetea24.com/galeriBuyukResim/Amazon-yerlileri-ilk-kez-goruntulendi.jpeg