"Pirahã" meaning in All languages combined

See Pirahã on Wiktionary

Proper name [English]

IPA: /ˈpiːɹəhɑː/ [UK], /piːɹəˈhɑːn/ [UK]
Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Pirahã
  1. The language of this people, having no extant relatives, with few phonemes, and controversially claimed to have no true numbers, no way of talking about history, and no recursive embedding. Categories (topical): Languages Translations (language): Pirahã [masculine] (Portuguese), пираха (piraxa) [masculine] (Russian), пираханский (piraxanskij) (Russian), пираа (piraa) [masculine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-Pirahã-en-name-DLHtthbd Disambiguation of Languages: 89 11 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English pluralia tantum, English terms with redundant sortkeys, Pages with raw sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 95 5 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 91 9 Disambiguation of English pluralia tantum: 82 18 Disambiguation of English terms with redundant sortkeys: 92 8 Disambiguation of Pages with raw sortkeys: 78 22
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: Piraha, Pirahá [uncommon], Pirahan [rare]

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈpiːɹəhɑː/ [UK], /piːɹəˈhɑːn/ [UK]
Head templates: {{en-noun|p}} Pirahã pl (plural only)
  1. An indigenous people of Brazil. Tags: plural, plural-only Translations (people): híaitíihí (Pirahã), Pirahã [masculine, plural] (Portuguese), pirahãs [masculine, plural] (Portuguese), пираха (piraxa) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-Pirahã-en-noun-xQONsxhJ
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: Piraha, Pirahá [uncommon], Pirahan [rare]

Download JSON data for Pirahã meaning in All languages combined (3.9kB)

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