Language name and locationː Kayapó, Mato Grosso state, Brazil [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 卡亚波语, 巴西西部马托格罗索州和北部帕拉州欣古原住民保留公园  

1. pydji             

2. amanhkrut

3. amanhkrut nẽ ikjêkêt ( 2+1 )

Linguist providing data and dateː Ms. Ruth Thomson, SIL International, Brazil, October 11, 2008, November 11, 2009.

提供资料的语言学家: Ms. Ruth Thomson, 2008 年 10 月 11 日, 2009 年 11 月 11 日.

Other comments: Kayapó or Cayapo, Mebêngokrê is spoken by approximately 7,200 speakers in Mato Grosso and Pará states: Xingú Park, both sides of Xingú river, west up to the Iriri and tributaries; west bank to Fresco and Zinho rivers; 14 villages. Kayapó has only 1 to 2 as numbers in their language. There is a name for one solitary object [pydji], and that means one. There is a name for a pair of objects [amãnhkrut] and that means two. For the number three, they say "two and no partner" [amãnhkrut nẽ ikjêkêt]. Literally this is [two and partner not], ikjê means partner and kêt is the negative. Number four is "two and two"; number five is "two and two and no partner [partner not]" and so on. After 4 or 5 or 6, the Indians usually stop counting, and just say [krãptĩ] = many. They use Portuguese numbers now. Note on the following phonetic symbolsː

1. y = unrounded back high vowel, 2. dj = voiced palatal affricate, IPA [dʒ].

3. nh when syllable final is pronounced with an [i] sound.

Kayapó phonetic charts:

  Consonantsː

Vowels, The vowel system has 10 oral vowels and 7 nasal vowels.