Language name and locationː Kashinawa, Peru, Brazil [Refer to Ethnologue]
言名称和分布地区卡希纳瓦语, 秘鲁东部乌卡亚利大区及巴西境内亚马逊雨林

 

1. besti [bɨsti) (Brazilian variety)

2. rabe [rabɨ] (litː ''a pair'')

3. rabe besti [rabɨ bɨsti] (litː ''a pair and a unite'')

4. rabe rabe  (litː ''two pairs'')

5. mekẽ besti (lit: ''one hand'']

6. mekẽ inũ besti or mekẽ inũ metuli dabe [litː ''one hand and a finger'']
7. mekẽ inũ rabe
8. mekẽ inũ rabe inũ besti
9. mekẽ inũ rabe rabe
10. mekẽ inũ 
15. mekẽ rabe inũ mekẽ besti 
20. mekẽ rabe inũ tae [taɨ] rabe [litː ''two hands and two feet'')

    Other wordsː rabukũ =a pile, akũ = a lots, akũ txakama [tʃakama]=more a lot,

    hara besma = very much, hara = this, besma = infinite

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Jaoquim Paulo de Lima Kaxinawá (Joaquin Maná), Department of Linguistics, University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil with the assistance of Dr. Yu Zhiming. July 26, 2014.
供资料的语言学家: Dr. Jaoquim Paulo de Lima Kaxinawá, 2014 年 7 月 26 日

 

Other comments: The Cashinahua (Kaxinawá) people can count numerals in traditional way up to twenty. The above data is from the Brazilian variety of  Cashinahua (Kaxinawá) language. Dr. Jaoquim Paulo de Lima Kaxinawá (age, 52) is both a native speaker of Cashinahua language and got a doctor degree in linguistics recently.

Note that the traditional symbol [x] is = IPA [ʃ], so [tx] is = IPA [t͡ʃ].


Language name and locationː Cashinahua, Peru, Brazil [Refer to Ethnologue]
言名称和分布地区卡希纳瓦语, 秘鲁东部乌卡亚利大区及巴西境内亚马逊雨林

 

1. bestit͡xai  (litː 'a unite',  t͡x is a voiceless palatal occlusive)

2. dabe (litː 'a pair')

3. dabe inun besti (litː 'a pair and a unite')

4. dabe inun dabe ( litː two pairs')

5. meken besti   

6. meken besti inun bestit͡xai
7. meken besti inun dabe
8. meken besti inun dabe inun besti 
9. meken dabe
10. meken besti inun bestit͡xai
15. meken dabeti inun besti
20. tae dabeti, meken dabeti
     dasi ( litː a lot' )

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Eliane Camargo, Centre d'Etudes des Langues Indigenes d'Amerique (CELIA/CNRS), Paris, France, March 25, 2009, August 29, 2010.供资料的语言学家: Dr. Eliane Camargo, 2009 年 3 月 25 日, 2010 年 8 月 29 日

 

Other comments: The five first Cashinahua numerals are traditional. Of course they can count with 5 for menki 'a hand' but it is not common, or even 6; 7; 8… but we don't know if it is traditional or what. Maybe they got them by contact with Europeans.


Language name and locationː Cashinahua, Peru, Brazil [Refer to Ethnologue]
言名称和分布地区卡希纳瓦语, 秘鲁东部乌卡亚利大区及巴西境内亚马逊雨林

 

1. bɨstichai (litː ''one only'')

2. dabɨ (litː ''two'')

3. dabɨ inu̜ bɨsti (litː ''two and one'')

4. dabɨ inu̜ dabɨ  (litː that two'')

5. mɨkɨ̜ bɨstiti (litː ''one hand amount'')

6. mɨkɨ̜ bushka (litː “thumb'')  

7. mɨtuti (litː ''pointer finger amount')

8. mɨkɨ̜ namakia (litː ''middle finger'')

9. mɨkɨ̜ papi kachukia *

10. mɨkɨ̜ dabɨti (''two hands amount'')

15. taɨ bɨstiti (litː 'one foot amount'')

20. taɨ dabɨti (litː ''two feet amount'')

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Richard Montag, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Peru, April 10, 1994.
供资料的语言学家: Dr. Richard Montag, 1994 年 4 月 10 日

 

Other comments: Cashinahua has only two numbers and using fingers, hands and feet, they can count up to twenty.  


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