Language name and locationː Ninam, Brazil, Venezuela [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 尼南语, 巴西西北部罗赖马州穆卡雅伊河和乌拉里卡河上游及委内瑞拉境内 

1. mõli = one or a few

2. kup or yalukup or yalukupèk = two or a few

.  pèk = more than two or a few, yâmi, verb meaning ''few''

Linguist providing data and dateː Ms. Carole Swain, Missão Evangélica da Amazônia

(Amazonia Evangelical Mission) and Crossworld, Brazil, November 28, 1993, November 9, 2008.

提供资料的语言学 家: Ms. Carole Swain, 1993 年 11 月 28 日, 2008 年 11 月 9 日.

Other comments: Ninam or Shiriana, Xirianá is spoken by approximately 1,000 speakers in Roraima state: Mucajaí and upper Uraricaá rivers, Brazil as well as Venezuela.

There are no specific numbers in Ninam, but two words can be regarded as 'numbers' in Ninam. They are mõli=one or a few; kup or yalukup or even yalukupèk=two or a few. And two words for ''a few'' or ''many''. If you want to emphasize ''yalami'', you grab the hair on your head and hold it out. Outsiders have introduced Portuguese terms if numbers and tried to relate them to the concept of specific numbers, but specific numbers are not part of the Yanomami language and culture. The current school teaches arithmetic using standard numbers.

Note that the above data were written in orthographic spellingsː

''è''=IPA [ʌ]; ''õ''=nasalized [õ]; ''y'' not followed by a nasalized vowel=[dj]; ''y'' followed by a nasalized vowel = [y]; ''l'' = a voiced alveolar flap which voices between [l] and [r]; ''p'' is a bilabial stop which varies between voiceless and voiced; ''k'' is the velar stop which varies between voiced and voiceless.