In a previous book I mentioned that the language of the Wari people of the Amazon has a set of noun classifiers that distinguish edible from inedible objects, and that the edible class includes anyone who is not a member of the tribe.
Saturday, 13 October 2007
Noun Classifiers and the Wari
From Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate:
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