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

语言名称和分布地区: 萨巴内斯语, 巴西西部马托格罗索州

1. amulu (litː 'one /only/ just) or kata

2. bala (litː 'dual')

3. bala.amulu or kata.bala  ( 2+1 ) or ( 1+2 )

.   ano-n-mina (litː 'few'), ano-wola (litː 'much / many')

Linguist providing data and dateː Prof. Gabriel Antunes de Araujo, São Paulo State University (DLCV, FFLCH, Universidade Estadual de Sao Paulo), São Paulo, Brazil. August 3, 2010.

提供资料的语言学家: Prof. Gabriel Antunes de Araujo, 2010 年 8 月 3 日

Other comments: Sabanê or Sabanês is a nearby extinct language with 3 speakers left in 140 ethnic population in Mato Grosso state, Brazil. There is also a lack of ordinal and cardinal numerals in Sabanês. Native speakers make use of verbal adverbs, such as amulu ‘one/only/just’. Sometimes, kata is also used for the numeral ‘one’ (it can occur simultaneously with amulu). Moreover, there is a ‘DUAL’ form, bala. The numeral ‘three’ is the result of concatenation of amulu and bala. All numerals are predicative forms. Since there are no verbs referring to possession, Sabanê expresses possession by means of existential constructions. The numeral ‘three’ is obtained by concatenating kata and bala. The morphemes ano and wola/wolata are used to express plurality, meaning ‘much/many/a lot’, whereas the litotic construction ano–n–mina expresses ‘few/some’. In the sentences, ano is a quantifier, while wola(ta) is an adverb. Sabanês is a tonal language.