Multiple choice general knowledge foreign languages

Name the world's simplest language

  1. Portuguese

  2. Piraha

  3. Je-Tupi-Carib

  4. Mura
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Explanation

Piraha is a language spoken by a small indigenous Amazonian tribe in Brazil and is famous among linguists for its extreme simplicity - it has one of the smallest phoneme inventories, no numbers, no color terms, and a unique grammatical structure. These characteristics have led some researchers to describe it as one of the world's simplest languages in terms of structural complexity.

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