Amazon tribe Amondawa does not use weeks, months or years to describe time. Their language links it to events and life stages
- Image AI generatedDeep in the Brazilian Amazon, the Amondawa have offered linguists an unusual glimpse of what life looks like when time is not treated as something that can be counted.
- In their language, researchers found no numerical calendar system built around familiar units such as weeks, months and years.
- Instead, daily life is organised around events, changes in the environment and the stages of a person's life.
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- Image AI generatedDeep in the Brazilian Amazon, the Amondawa have offered linguists an unusual glimpse of what life looks like when time is not treated as something that can be counted.
- In their language, researchers found no numerical calendar system built around familiar units such as weeks, months and years.
- Instead, daily life is organised around events, changes in the environment and the stages of a person's life.
Sources: Times of India