Amahuaca

Language name and locationː Amahuaca, Peru, Brazil [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 阿马华卡语, 秘鲁, 巴西

1. tíí = 'tiː ?

2. rávuu, rávutan = 'raβuu ?

3. químshá ( < Quechua ? ) = 'kimʃa ?

4. rávuurívicún - rávuurívi ( 2 + 2 )

5. múcun - rámisti = 'mukũ ? (litː ''hand one'' ?, múcun= hand )

6. rávuurívicún, rávuurivicúnstii = 'raβuː'riβikũ ?

7. múcun-tóhastináquiha = 'mukũ-tohastinakiha' ?

8. múcun-papiicun-cutaháx = 'mukũ papiːkũ-kutahax ?

9. rávuurívicún, rávuurivicúnstii jacun rávuurívicún, rávuuríví

10. múcun-quíyoo = 'mukũ-kijoː ? (litː hands ? )

15. múcun-quíyoo, jacun tahústii = dʒacũ ta'hustiː ?

20. múcun-quíyoo, jacun tóhuquíyoo = dʒacũ 'tohu'kijoː ?

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Stephen Parker, 3 January, 1994.

Summer Institute of Linguistics, Peru.

Sourceː Hyde, Sylvia 1980. Diccionario Amahuaca. Serie Lingüística Peruana no.7. Yarinacocha, Pucallpa, Peruː Instituto Lingüístico de Verano.

提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Stephen Parker 1994 年 1 月 3 日

Other comments: Like most Panoan languages, Amahuaca does not have many

numbers words. It is possible to count up to twenty using hands or feet? updated

data needed. The word for 'three' might be a loanword from Quechua.

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