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Pirahá

Pirahá is the uncommon form of Pirahã.

Meaning of Pirahã

Proper noun

Pirahã

  1. The language of that people
    • The Pirahã language challenges simplistic application of Hockett's nearly universally accepted design features of human language by showing that some of these features (interchangeability, displacement, and productivity) may be culturally constrained.2005, Daniel Everett, “Cultural Constraints on Grammar and Cognition in Pirahã”, in Current Anthropology, section 46.4

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Questions about Pirahá

What is Pirahá the uncommon form of?
Pirahá is the uncommon form of Pirahã.

Words near Pirahá in the dictionary

  1. piragliatin
  2. piragua
  3. piraguas
  4. Piraha
  5. Pirahan
  6. Pirahá
  7. Pirahã
  8. pirai
  9. Piraic
  10. Piraino
  11. Pirainos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Pirahá (page history and authors); Pirahã (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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