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===Numberless languages=== A small number of languages have no grammatical number at all, even in pronouns. A well known example is [[Pirahã language|Pirahã]]. [[Acehnese language|Acehnese]] comes close, but appears to have a singular/plural distinction only in the first person pronouns.<ref>{{cite book |last=Corbett |first=Greville G. |author-link=Greville G Corbett |year=2004 |orig-year=2000 |title=Number |series=Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |pages=50–51, 64–65 |isbn=0-511-01591-7 }}</ref> {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |+ Pirahã pronouns |- ! First | {{lang|myp|ti}} |- ! Second | {{lang|myp|gíxai}} |- ! Third | {{lang|myp|hiapióxio}} |}
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