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Language name and location: Aikanã, Rondônia state, Brazil [Refer to Ethnologue]
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1. ɑmeme |
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2. ɑtukɑ |
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3. ɑtukɑ ɑmeme (2+1) |
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4. ɑtukɑ ɑtukɑ (2+2) |
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5. ɑmeme hinɑ̃rikɑẽ ĩne (litː 'one hand finished') rejected by some |
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. hẽwɑ̃ẽ, this many (showing hands and fingers) |
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Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Hein van der Voort, University of Amsterdam / University of Leiden, Netherlands. August 1, 2011. 提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Hein van der Voort, 2011 年 8 月 1 日 |
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Other comments: Aikanã is a spoken by approximately 150 speakers out of 200 ethnic population in Rondônia, west of Vilhena, near Cuiabá-Porto Velho highway. Aikanã is a language isolate. It was not proven to be a member of any known language family. Also, its name is not Tubarão; that is the mutilated form of a person name that has become part of the name of the Tubarão-Latundê reserve (where Aikanã, Kwazá, Latundê, Salamãi, Sabanê, and Terena Indians live). Aikanã has a rather simple numeral. Above three or four people count in Portuguese. Traditionally they did not count above four, but showed a number of fingers and said 'this many'. Real Aikanã expressions of such numbers are contrived and just describe the situation on the hands, such as the number six: ĩnẽ hi’nã-rika-‘pö a’meme ‘hu-rütxüne-ẽ’ hand no-cl:finger-ss one take-back.again-dec 'Hand finished and took another finger again.' (i.e. six) (cl = classifier, ss= same subject, dec = declarative) |
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