[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHv3-U9VPAs]
What I try to imagine as this man speaks this rare language is his mother speaking it to him as a child, singing it to him, and this language being like a song of the Amazon forest, being resonant with the life of the forest itself.
And here is a video in which a linguist discusses a word in the Pirahã language that means “to go in and out of the bounds of experience.” This is truly fascinating.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNajfMZGnuo]
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