Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 02, 2016

Alaskan Inuits have many words for “snow”, but Brazilian Pirahãs have no words for those things listed? Seems like a limited vocabulary to me.

A quote from Daniel Everett found in Wikipedia:“The Pirahã are supremely gifted in all the ways necessary to ensure their continued survival in the jungle: they know the usefulness and location of all important plants in their area; they understand the behavior of local animals and how to catch and avoid them; and they can walk into the jungle naked, with no tools or weapons, and walk out three days later with baskets of fruit, nuts, and small game.”

My second born child must have had bottle nose dolphin DNA.

digging and digging oh hey Piraha tribe what doe you have to say about itPiraha:…

When they tunnel out of prison, what do they do with all that dirt? Surely that much loose dirt would attract attention.

Just a quick note about the Inuit people. They are not just in Alaska but in the Canadian territories of Yukon, North West and Nunavut. This area is many times larger than Alaska.

Doesn’t “Almost no words for…” mean they have words?

That ol’ Tunnel Joe!

Dolphins don’t sleep anyway as sharks don’t sleep. What happens is that half their brain sleeps and it takes turns.

I gave up counting, time and relationships when I retired.As for colors… I do like to paint….

To me, it means that their language has been inadequately studied and is poorly understood. It reminds me of the Hawaiian language as alphabetized by missionaries. One native speaker, years later, used a diphthong which the Anglo listener thought was not in the syllabary. When the white listener remarked that the sound was not one possessed by native speakers, the native commented “No, it was the missionaries who decided we did not have it.” I suspect a similar case here…