May 2010
6 posts
Aymara Language: The Future Is Behind You, The... →
austinkleon:
The speakers of Aymara, an Indian language of the high Andes, think of time differently than just about everyone else in the world:
Most of us describe the future as ahead or in front of us, and the past as behind us. Until the view of the Aymara speakers was deconstructed, no significant exceptions to this way of thinking about time had been demonstrated….
…the Aymara call the...
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