A language that requires no numbers, a language we should love

The Piraha (Pe-tah-ha) language is only spoken by 150 members who live in the Amazon rainforest.  In this short video, you come to see a language that would not require you to count. A language that values quality over quantity. One of the only languages to do so, too! The language is not only limited when it comes to numbers, but also colors and pronouns. Aside from that, they do not have subordinate clauses in their language. Oh, and I guess the men and women pronounce phonemes differently. So accordingly, linguists have coined the language of the Piraha to be the strangest the world has ever seen.

 

I am happy to see a community in which has no real ties with exact numbers. I loved the part in the video when they explained that the Piraha mothers do not know how many children they have but know their faces so it does not matter. To think outside of the Piraha tribe, we as Americans have had the problem of being more of a number than having a face so it is interesting that numbers have a distinct prominence here rather than over there. Then again, the Piraha do live a much simpler life than we do.

 

Links:

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/piraha.php

http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/brazil-s-piraha-tribe-living-without-numbers-or-time-a-414291.html

Yes, an introduction

Hello! 
I am Sade' and I am in ENG213 to experience a marvelous introduction to the study of language.

My name in itself can identify the language problems I come across daily. My name is oddly designed to make people say "Sade," but it is actually pronounced "Shaw-day." The name comes from Africa and found its way to France. In result, I was named after the French singer Sade who was dear to my mother's ears. 

On another note, I did manage to take two years of Spanish in high school and was determined to stop there. I remember my best friend who spoke Spanish fluently making fun of how awful my Spanish was because it was way too formal. So when it came to the last year of Spanish, I was filled with joy.

Later I did try to learn Latin which is hard to learn by yourself so I stopped there, too.

As for myself, my interests are reading and binge watching shows on Netflix (these things could also be my hobbies). Also, I really do love learning. Oh and I also enjoy chilling out to some Harry Belafonte or the Blackbyrds (any kind of music, really, except for metal). 

I am totally looking forward to a great semester appreciating the variety of language!