For a sec I thought it was a dupe, just a completely different vid: http://videosift.com/video/Losing-Religion-to-the-Amazonian-Piraha-Tribe

Not a dupe. Good stuff.

What I had typed was that I had read about this very recently from the New Yorker article in "he Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008 (highly recommended reading).

This is a question: Do you think the Piraha culture is ignorant?

The video is hard to conclude much about the language... as for Piraha, I have a hard time beliving any language cannot count past 2. Even before language, pounding sticks and rock to denote numbers was used. Numbers exhisted before people knew what numbers were.

doremifa

your comment was in the past and was infact invalid in Piraha language, and thus removed