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Language name and locationː Sharanahua, Peru, Brazil [Refer to Ethnologue] |
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1. fusti |
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2. rafu |
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3. rafu nõ fusti ( 2 + 1 ) |
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4. rafu nõ rafu ( 2 + 2 ) |
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5. mutsu fusti (litː 'hand one', mutsu= hand ) |
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6. mutsu fusti nõ futsi (litː 'hand one and one' ) |
| 7. mutsu fusti nõ rafu (litː 'hand one and two' ) |
| 8. mutsu namantsajanoa (the word 'namantsajanoa' means 'located in the middle') |
| 9. mutsu fustiti nõ mutsu tʃituʃu (the word 'tʃituʃu' means 'next to it') |
| 10.mutsu rafuti (litː 'hands two') |
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Linguist providing data and dateː Mrs. Marie Scott, 18 November, 2008. SIL International 提供资料的语言学家: Mrs. Marie Scott, 2008 年 11 月 18 日 |
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Other comments: Like most Panoan languages, Sharanahua does not have many numbers words. The Sharanahuas rarely used the numbers from 6 to 9. I tried to elicit the Sharanahua words from more than one person, and the answers varied.
I sometimes got the word 'namancayanoa
[ ]' for both the numbers 8 and 9. They
literally mean:'namancayanoa' - 'located in the middle' 'chitushu' - 'next to it'.
The words for 6 and 7 are literally
'one hand and one' and 'one hand and two'.
It appeared that the language either did not have words for those amounts, (6 through 9) or they were used so rarely that the original ones were forgotten, and the speakers were making up something that fit, to give an answer to the the questions. Today, most Sharanahua speakers use Spanish numerals for counting higher than two. |