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Hey /his/, I was curious: Are there any people/ethnic groups/tribes/etc.
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Hey /his/, I was curious:
Are there any people/ethnic groups/tribes/etc. who do not use human language?
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Turks
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>>860990
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In a word: no
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>>860990
No but that would be cool. There are some tribes that don't have words for numbers though. At least not numbers as in numerals, per se. They only have words for "One/A/An" and "Many"
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>>861023
>>861037

Is there actual research on this? Like, is there anything I could cite if I make this claim?
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>>860990
>who do not use human language
>human

you're gonna have to clarify this one sport
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>>861069

I wanna be clear about separating it from e.g., animal language. Human language is different from the way gorillas shout at each other, since animal language is very restricted and human language is more open and able to refer to abstract concepts.
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>>861099
no guman uses non human language

unless you count the ancient egyptians whose hieroglyph communicated abstract concepts far more intuitively than any script.
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Wtf kind of post is this, if they are human and then make some type of noise, it is a human noise. Op clearly is a brain fag.
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>>861121

Human making noise =/= human language. See also:
>>861099
or for example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockett's_design_features

My question is whether there are groups of people who deliberately live without language and whether there are sources that explicitly answer this.
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>>861061
They don't know.
Those ethnic groups now use Portuguese to count now.
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Do deaf people count?
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>>861198
Deaf people use sign language, which counts as language.
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>>861221
I have no idea what criteria OP is using.
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>>860990
No, most humans everywhere are hardwired to pick up language.
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Are there? No
Were there? Probably. way back when.
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Swiss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3-UfPCubsE
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>>862714
Romansh
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>>860990
There is this thing called Ebonics...
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