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An Amazonian tribe has no abstract concept of time, say researchers.

The Amondawa lacks the linguistic structures that relate time and space - as in our idea of, for example, "working through the night".

The study, in Language and Cognition, shows that while the Amondawa recognise events occuring in time, it does not exist as a separate concept.

The idea is a controversial one, and further study will bear out if it is also true among other Amazon languages.

HTML	<p class="introduction" id="story_continues_1">An Amazonian tribe has no abstract concept of time, say researchers.</p> <p>The Amondawa lacks the linguistic structures that relate time and space - as in our idea of, for example, "working through the night".</p> <p>The study, in Language and Cognition, shows that while the Amondawa recognise events occuring in time, it does not exist as a separate concept.</p> <p>The idea is a controversial one, and further study will bear out if it is also true among other Amazon languages.</p>

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An Amazonian tribe has no abstract concept of time, say researchers. The Amondawa lacks the linguistic structures that relate time and space - as in our idea of, for example, "working through the night". The study, in Language and Cognition, shows that while the Amondawa recognise events occuring in time, it does not exist as a separate concept. The idea is a controversial one, and further study will bear out if it is also true among other Amazon languages.

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