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Pirahan

Pirahan is the rare 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 Pirahan

What is Pirahan the rare form of?
Pirahan is the rare form of Pirahã.

Words near Pirahan in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Pirahan (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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