Language name and locationː Northern Emberá, Panama [Refer to Ethnologue]

言名称和分布地区北部恩佩拉语, 巴拿马东部达连省和恩贝拉-沃内安特区原住民居留区及哥伦比亚境内

 

1. abá

2. ũme ~ õme

3. ũbea ~ õbea

4. kimárẽ

5. huesoma ~ huasoma (litː ''one hand'')

6. seis (six up from Spanish)

7. siete  (< Spanish)

100. cien  (< Spanish)

200. dosciento(s)  (< Spanish)

1000. mil  (< Spanish)

2000. dos mil  (< Spanish)

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Mr. Charles A. Mortensen, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Colombia, January 20, 1996.

提供资的语言家: Mr. Charles A. Mortensen, 1996 年 1 月 20 日.

 

Other comments: Northern Emberá or Darien Emberá,, Dadyi Ẽ́berã Bed̶ea, Ẽ́berã Bed̶ea is spoken by approximately 72,000 in Darién province: Chepigana district; Emberá province; Panamá province: Chepos and Chiman districts; lowland jungle along rivers, Gulf San Miguel area, Panama as well as Colombia.

Northern Emberá has only preserved five traditional numbers, after five they adapted Spanish numbers. There was formerly a system of counting to twenty (all appendages of both hands and feet), similar to the related Catio quinary system based on five and person.


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