Language name and locationː Banawá, Brazil [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 巴纳瓦语, 巴西

1. owaria / damara

2. fama

3. fama one owaria  ( 2 + 1 ) / tresi towa  ( < Portuguese 'tres' )

4. famabisa famabisa  ( 2 + 2 ) / kwato  towa  ( < Portuguese 'quarto' )

5. ee yee kadamara  (lit: ''one hand'' ) / siko  towa  ( < Portuguese 'cinco' )

6. ee yee kadamara one owarima /  sei towa  ( < Portuguese 'seis' )

7. ee yee kadamara one famama / sete  towa  ( < Portuguese 'sete' )

8.                                            / oito towa  towa  ( < Portuguese 'oito' )

9.                                            / ofi towa  towa  ( < Portuguese 'nove' )

10. ee yee kafama  /  dei towa  ( < Portuguese 'deis' )

Linguist providing data and dateː Mrs. Ernie W. Buller, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Brazil, February 15, 1995.

提供资料的语言学家: Mrs. Ernie W. Buller, 1995 年 2 月 15 日.

Other comments: The basic counting system of the Banawá is really just 'one, two, many'. The borrowed forms are very often used for the other numerals, except for five and ten, which are literally 'one of our hands, and two of our hands', respectively. They could contrive forms for 8 and 9, but they generally use the borrowed forms. It is very questionable if they have any real concept of the larger numbers, such as 'one thousand, two thousand,' but they began to see their language in written form, are increasing in number and growing in self-respect and in language use and pride.