Cultures without numbers, or with only one or two precise numbers, include the Munduruku and Piraha in Amazaonia.
亚马逊地区的蒙杜鲁库部落和毗拉哈部落的文化里没有数字或只有一两个精确数字。
Although the Piraha people might not need Numbers, think of what they're missing.
虽然皮拉罕人不需要数字,但是他们也丢失了很多。
Back in 2004, the M.I.T. team reported that the Piraha people seemed to have terms that described “one, ” “two, ” or “many.”
早在2004年,麻省理工的这个研究小组就报道说,亚马孙Piraha人的语言似乎只能表达“1、2和许多”三个概念,而无法对超过2的数进行精准表征。
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