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Piraha

Piraha is the alternative 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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What is Piraha the alternative form of?
Piraha is the alternative form of Pirahã.

Words near Piraha in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Piraha (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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