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

语言名称和分布地区: 奇基塔诺语, 玻利维亚 东部圣克鲁斯省奇基塔诺区和巴西境内

1. taman (litː ''one'')

2. sürümana (litː ''many'') / torrü (< Spanish 'dos')

3. trerrü (< Spanish ''tres')

Linguist providing data and dateː Mr. Martin Krüsi, Wycliffe Bible Translators, Germany, June 19, 1991.

提供资料的语言学家: Mr. Martin Krüsi, 1991 年 6 月 19 日.

Other comments: Chiquitano or Chiquito is an endangered language with 4,600 spekers in about 47,000 ethnic population in Santa Cruz department: Ángel Sandoval and Germán Busch, Chiquitos, Concepción, Florida and Velasco provinces, Bolivia as well as Brazil. There is no numerical system in Chiquitano. The only two words referring to numbers areː ''taman'' = 'one' and 'sürümana'' = 'many'. Since Chiquitanos are fairly bilingual and bicultural, they are using the Spanish numerical system with phonetic and morpho-phonemic adaptations. From number 6 upwards the numerals are identical with Spanish. 'taman' is not used in higher numbers such as 21.