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Team finds language without numbers (7/3/2008)
Made Popular Jul 8 2008
Amazonian tribe has no word to express ‘one,’ other numbers
An Amazonian language with only 300 speakers has no word to express the concept of “one” or any other specific number, according to a new study from an MIT-led...
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But what about really useful things such as days of the week and months of a year. They can totally ignore minutes and hours, but days and months? :)
Apparently they are just interested in qualitative, not in quantitative things.
Maybe their culture is far ahead of us, recognizing quality being more important than quantity :-)
Maybe their culture is far ahead of us, recognizing quality being more important than quantity :-)
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It is often assumed that counting is an innate part of human cognition, said Gibson, ”but here is a group that does not count. They could learn, but it’s not useful in their culture, so they’ve never picked it up.”