Mundurukú
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Mundurukú
An indigenous group called the Mundurukú, who live in isolated villages in several Brazilian states in the Amazon jungles, have no words in their language for square, rectangle, triangle, or any other geometric shape except circles. The Mundurukú language has few words for numbers beyond five except few and many. The Mundurukú subjects, tested by a native speaker of Mundurukú working with a linguist, were asked to identify the image. The Mundurukú, like all of us, do interact with 3-D objects, navigate in a complex spatial environment, and so on.