Keren Everett

{{Short description|American linguist}}

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Keren Madora Everett ({{née|Graham}}) is an American linguist and Christian missionary.

Everett has spent many years in the Amazon studying the Pirahã tribe and their language.

The Pirahã language is of great interest to linguists, but only a few people apart from the Pirahã are fluent in it. Everett's former husband Daniel, whom she married in 1969, is the best-known authority on the language. He acknowledges his ex-wife as an expert on the prosody of Pirahã.{{cite magazine |last=Colapinto |first=John |author-link=John Colapinto |title=The Interpreter: Has a remote Amazonian tribe upended our understanding of language? |magazine=The New Yorker |date=9 April 2007 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/04/16/the-interpreter-2?printable=true |access-date=29 April 2009}} Their son is Caleb Everett.{{cn|date=June 2025}} They lived among the Pirahã from 1978 to 1983 and from 1999 to 2002. Following their separation in 2005, Keren returned to Brazil where, as of 2007, she was continuing her missionary work among the Pirahã.