Language name and locationː Anambé, Pará state, Brazil [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 阿南贝语, 巴西北部帕拉州莫茹河支流卡里阿利河流域地区

1. tipɛ'ʔĩ (litː tipɛ'ʔi means exactly ''alone'')

2. mukũ (litː mukũ means ''a couple of '')

3. muapɨ'ʔĩ

4. je irũ mukũ  (litː je (reflexive form), irũ (partner), mukũ means ''a couple of'')

5. jene po (litː ''hand'')

Linguist providing data and dateː Prof. Risoleta Julião, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Brazil, October 13, 2009.

提供资料的语言学家: Prof. Risoleta Julião, 2009 年 10 月 13 .

Other comments: Anambé is a seriously endangered language with 7 persons out of 130 ethnic population in Pará state; Cairari river (Moju river tributary), northern Brazil. Anambé is reportedly similar to Asuriní do Tocantins.

Anambé has only three words for numerals and might be able to count up to 20. The words tips'ʔĩ, mukũ, je irũ mukũ refer to the basic numbers and make it possible to form other numbers by the means of system that reflect addition. The word for 6, 7, 8 and 9 are formed by 1, 2, 3 and 4, followed by the expression for 5 - jene po "hand". This expression comes in association with the verb ruaja "to cross" in the causative comitative case. The literal translation for six, for example, could be to "cross the hand once" I witnessed the participant in my research naturally counting in her daily activities only until five. The other numbers were obtained by the means of direct elicitation. For example, for 10 she showed her hands and for 20, she showed her hands and feet. I used beans to elicitate her counting ability. She could count from 1 to 9 when she saw the benas on the table. To mean 10, she separated 5 and then 5 by imposing one of her hands wide open on each group of five. Then, she showed the two hands at the same time and said jene po raha juã. However, she could not count when she saw 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19 beans on the table. I tried to elicitate the numbers by saying them in Portuguese, her second language, but she did not respond. When I said "vinte" the Portuguese word for twenty, she responded by showing her hands and feet and at the same time saying jene py raha juã.

Language name and locationː Anambé, Pará state, Brazil [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 阿南贝语, 巴西北部帕拉州莫茹河支流卡里阿利河流域地区

1. tipɛ'ʔi

2. mukũ

3. muapɨ'ʔĩ

4. je irũ mukũ (litː je (reflexive form), irũ (partner), mukũ means ''a couple of'')

5. jene po (litː ''hand'')

Linguist providing data and dateː Prof. Wolf Dietrich, University of Munich, Germany, November 11, 2008.

提供资料的语言学家: Prof. Wolf Dietrich, 2008 年 11 月 11 日.

Other comments: Anambé has only three words for numerals and might be able to count up to 20. Anambé is a seriously endangered language with 7 persons (1991 Ethnologue).