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the original form of the name 'Mura'; spoken on the Autaz River Pirahã, or Pirahá, Pirahán, the name the remaining dialect goes by Yahahí, also spelled

html Archived 2019-12-03 at the Wayback Machine. Bower, Bruce (2005). "The pirahá challenge: An Amazonian tribe takes grammar to a strange place". Science

now known as FUNAI (Fundação Nacional do Índio, National Foundation for Indians). SPI was the first federal agency tasked with protecting Amerindians and

Munduruku, in 1788. Of the original diversity of Muran languages, only Pirahã survives today. The Mura are first attested by the Portuguese in 1714 in

the Timucua Indians and Missions. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 1996. ISBN 0-8130-1424-7. Hann, John H. (2003). Indians of Central

makes frequent use of ⟨x⟩ in native words as well as in loanwords). In Pirahã, ⟨x⟩ symbolizes the glottal stop /ʔ/. In Polish, ⟨x⟩ was used prior to 19th

O'Neill, Sean (2008), Cultural Contact and Linguistic Relativity Among the Indians of Northwestern California, University of Oklahoma Press, ISBN 978-0-8061-3922-7

Mayoruna Mayo Korubu (Dslala): Brazil Matis: Brazil/Peru Matsés: Brazil/Peru Pirahã: Brazil Ticuna-Yuri peoples Ticuna (Tikuna): Brazil/Peru/Colombia Tucanoan

years. Studies conducted in the region inhabited by Luzia and other Paleo-Indians show that they were unaware of pottery and that their lithic industry was

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