Language name and locationː Matsés, Loreto region, Peru, Brazil [Refer to Ethnologue]
语言名称和分布地区: 马策斯语, 秘鲁, 巴西洛雷托大区及巴西境内

1. a'bentsɨk   ( litː 'alone' )

2. daid  ( litː 'to increase in number' )

3. a'bentsɨk tʃo  (litː 'one more comes(?)', 'has one more' ?)

4. daid daid   ( litː 'two plus two ? )

5. mɨ'dante auk a'bentsɨk  (litː 'as many as on one hand' )

6. mɨ'dante u'tsiuk be'danek  ( litː 'starting on the other hand' )

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. David W. Fleck, Department of Linguistics, La Trobe University, Australia, September 15, 2008.

提供资料的语言学家: Dr. David W. Fleck, 2008 年 10 月 16 日.

Other comments: Matsés or Magirona, Majuruna is spoken by approximately 6,500 speakers in Loreto region: lower Yaquerana river and tributaries; lower Yavari on Chobayacu and Gálvez rivers, Peru as well as Brazil. The Matsés language has very few true numerals. The only two words that could be considered basic numerals are abentsëk ‘one’ and daëd ‘two.’ But even these are polysemous forms, meaning also ‘alone’ and ‘increase in number,’ respectively. The term for ‘three’ is not semantically transparent (and is morpho syntactically a verb phrase), and the meaning ‘four’ is not exactly predictable from the reduplication of daëd (Table 7.9). So these could be said to be lexicalized phrases. All other terms for talking about numbers are complex, semantically transparent, and subject to high socio-linguistic variation, showing no signs of lexicalization. In modern times, the Peruvian Matses have adopted the Spanish number system, using the Matses terms abentsëk and daëd interchangeably with the corresponding borrowed Spanish terms in conversation, but only Spanish terms for counting or doing mathematics (e.g., in school). The other Matses number terms in above Table are now only used occasionally by older speakers. Note that the traditional phonetic symbolsː <ë>=IPA [i].

Language name and locationː Matsés, Loreto region, Peru, Brazil [Refer to Ethnologue]
语言名称和分布地区: 马策斯语, 秘鲁, 巴西洛雷托大区及巴西境内

1. abentsëc   

2. daëd     

3. daëd abentsëc or abetsëc choec

4. daëd daëd 

5. mëdante auc abentsëc tedi

Linguist providing data and dateː Ms. Hattie Kneeland, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Peru, January 11, 1996.
提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Ms. Hattie Kneeland, 1996 年 1 月 11 日

Other comments: Matsés or Magirona, Majuruna is spoken by approximately 6,500 speakers in Loreto region: lower Yaquerana river and tributaries; lower Yavari on Chobayacu and Gálvez rivers, Peru as well as Brazil. The Matsés language has very few true numerals. When there are no schools, the numbers of the systems are not fixed absolutes. One could be one or two. There could be many (daëdpen=''not two''), But the trend of the young people is to use Spanish numbers.