Language name and locationː Paicoca, Ecuador, Peru [Refer to Ethnologue]
语言名称和分布地区: 派科卡语 (塞科雅语 Secoya), 厄瓜多尔东北部苏昆比奥斯省与哥伦比亚接壤的阿瓜里科河, 库亚贝诺河和埃诺河流域及秘鲁境内

1. teʔe, teʔi, teʔo (inanimate, masculine, feminine)

2. kaja

3. toaso

4. kahese(ʔe), kaheseʔi, kaheseʔo (paʔi)  ( inanimate, masculine, feminine )

5. te-hɨtɨ (paʔi)    ( litː ''a hand of X exists'' )

6. ɨha-tupɨ (paʔi) [lit: ''thumb from the other hand (exists)'' ]

7. ɨha-tupɨ seɲã-maka-jo (lit: ''after the thumb'')

8. hopoajo (paʔi) [lit: ''middle finger (exists)'']

9. hopoajo kɨno-make-jo (lit: ''close to middle finger'')

10. sia-hɨ-ɲa (paʔi) [lit: ''all hands (exist)'']

11. siahɨɲa teʔe/teʔi/teʔo

12. siahɨɲa kaja

20. siahɨɲa siahɨɲa

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Rosa Vallejos Yopán, Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon, USA, November 16, 2008.

提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Rosa Vallejos Yopán, 2008 年 11 月 16 日.

Other comments: Paicoca or Paikoka, Secoya is spoken by approximately 950-1,870 speakers in Sucumbíos province: Cuyabeno canton; Aguarico, Cuyabeno, and Eno rivers, near Colombian border, Ecaudor as well as Peru.

Secoya people can count up to twenty with hands. Notes the following pointsː
1. Numbers agree with the entity been counted with respect to gender/ animacy

    (see 1 & 4). However, a few inanimate entities are not overtly marked us such

    (i.e., -Ɂe does not always show up).
2.  Depending on the noun they modify, the numeric expression may require the

     copula paɁi ‘exist’. (see 4, 5…)

3.  Numeric expressions for 7 & 9 are complicated; the glosses for 7 would be
     something like: thumb after-position-classifier (the CL jo ‘longish’ refers to the

     form of the finger, not to the form of the entity been counted)
4.  After number 5, different expressions are possible. Also, there are differences

     among speakers (I have data from 4 speakers). For instance, other expressions

     for # 6 are:

      te-hɨtɨ  ɨha-tupɨ “five plus thumb [from the other hand]’

     te-hɨtɨ  kɨno-maka-jo   “close to five”

     te-hɨtɨ seɲã-maka-jo     “after five”

5.  The glosses for # ten would be: all-hand-PL