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Amondawa Tribe and Concept of Time
March 5 , 2026
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- A study published in the journal Language and Cognition reported that the Amondawa tribe does not use measurable units of time.
- The Amondawa tribe lives in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil.
- Their language has no words for time units such as week, month, or year.
- They describe events in sequence but do not treat time as a separate measurable concept.
- Age is not counted numerically, and individuals change names at different life stages.
- Daily activities are guided by natural cycles like sunrise, sunset, and seasons.
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