Language name and locationː Borôró, Brazil, Bolivia [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 博罗罗语, 巴西西部马托格罗索州

1. mito (lit: 'one' )         

2. pobe (lit: 'two')

3. pobe metuila bokware (litː 'two and a companionless' )

8. ikera aobodure mare iare pobe metuila bokware ( litː 'my hand the one on this

    side and two and a companionless)

13. ikera pudoɡidure mare iare pobe metuila bokware ( litː 'my hands together and
    two and a companionless')

18.  ikera pudoɡidure mare ikera aobodu  mare iare pobe metuila bokware ( litː 'my
      hands together and my hand on this side and another two and a companionless')

Linguist providing data and dateː Mr. Keith Barkman, SIL-International, Brazil, December 13, 2012.

提供资料的语言学家: Mr. Keith Barkman, 2012 年 12 月 13 日.

Other comments: Borôro or Boe Wadáru is spoken by approximately 1,390 speakers in Mato Grosso state: Meruri, Sangradouro, Perigera, Brazil as well as Bolivia. Borôró people have a traditional counting system up to 20. The above data is from Western Bororos while the data provided by Dr. Nobato is from the Eastern Bororos. I was told by the men in our village that the upriver Bororos use a slightly different system. The village I work in is the last remnants of the Western Bororos called tugo kuri doge or “long arrow ones” by the Bororos themselves. The other villages are all Eastern Bororos known as the tori tadawuge or “those in the rocks” by the Bororo people. The statement by Dr Nonato about the use of the Portuguese for

Language name and locationː Borôró, Brazil, Bolivia [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 博罗罗语, 巴西西部马托格罗索州

1. 'mitɔ         

2. 'pɔpɛ

3. 'pɔbɛ ma mɛ'tuja bo'kʷaɾɛ (litː 'two and there's no friend' )

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Rafael Nonato, Department of Linguistics & Philosophy. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA, June 9, 2009. Dr. Thomas Crowell, February 13, 1995.

提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Rafael Nonato, 2009 年 6 月 9 日.

Other comments: Borôro or Boe Wadáru is spoken by approximately 1,390 speakers in Mato Grosso state: Meruri, Sangradouro, Perigera, Brazil as well as Bolivia.

Above are the Borôró numbers from 1 to 10 and also 20. My consultant helped me with the glosses, but we aren't sure about them | this looks to me like an older stage of the language that was conserved in the numbering system. He didn't remember how to count from 11 to 19, though I think it would follow the same logics. This is a system seldom used nowadays. Almost all Borôro speakers being also used in Portuguese, they simply use the latter's numbers for anything greater 2. They don't act any phonetic changes to the Portuguese numbers when they do so. Dr. Thomas Crowell told me in 1995 that the Borôró people very seldom to use numbers from 11 to 20. In reality, Portuguese number are now used for every thing except 1 and 2.