[b-hebrew] b-hebrew Uncancellable meaning and Hebrew verbs
David Kummerow
farmerjoeblo at hotmail.com
Tue Jul 7 19:17:40 EDT 2009
> > There are some tense-less languages in the world, but no languages
> > that are not concerned with time, past, present, and future.
>
> I thought it was a link from this list a few years ago that discussed
> a people living in a jungle who had no concept of past or future, but
> are stuck in the present. But that was just an interesting aside.
>
Hi Karl,
I can't remember whether it was discussed on this list or not either.
But the likely language to which you refer is Pirahã.
Regards,
David Kummerow.
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