1. pente /pẽti/

21.  monkoi opa ñandepo pente

2. monkoi / mõkoi/

22. 

3. mbahapɨ

23. 

4. urundi

24. 

5. pande-po (litː 'all you hand')

25. 

6. owa /óβa/

26.  

7. shiu / ʃíu /

27. 

8. huri

28.  

9. shau /ʃau /

29. 

10. opa-ñandepo (litː 'all our hands')

30.  monkoi opa-ñandepo

11. opa ñandepo pente  *

40.  mbahapɨ opa-ñandepo

12. opa ñandepo monki

50.  pandepo opa-ñandepo

13. opa ñandepo mbahapɨ 

60.  owa opa-ñandepo

14. opa ñandepo urundi

70.  shiu opa-ñandepo

15. opa ñandepo pandepo

80.  huri opa-ñandepo

16. opa ñandepo owa

90.  shau opa-ñandepo

17. opa ñandepo shiu

100. 

18. opa ñandepo huri

200. 

19. opa ñandepo shau

1000.

20. monkoi opa ñandepo

2000.

Linguist providing data and dateː Prof. Hebe González, Department of Linguistics, National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina, February 13, 2013,

July 24, 2013. Referenceː  Hebe Alicia González, A grammar of Tapiete (Tupi-Guarani), University of Pittsburg, USA, 2005.

提供资料的语言学家: Prof. Hebe González, 2013 年 2 月 13 日, 2013 年 7 月 24 日.

Other comments: Tapiete number system is decimal. While cognates for numbers one to five are found in other Tupi-Guarani languages, cognates for number six, seven, eight and nine are only found in Chiriguano (Dietrich 1986:169.) Names for number ‘five’ pandepo, all 2POSS-hand and ‘ten’ opañandepo, all 1POSSPL-hand are compounds whose meaning are ‘all your hand’ and ‘all our hands’, respectively. Speakers easily use the number system from one to five, and this use is reflected in texts. This is not the case, of numbers six to ten. Although these later forms have been given by elderly speakers, they do not appear frequently in texts and young speakers do not use them at all. Beyond number ten, the forms given are innovations from young educated speakers, as they appear as calques of the Spanish number system. These forms have been approved, however, by elderly speakers as forms that could be adopted if the language reaches the point of standardization. The innovating number system is as shown in above table. Note thatː ñ =IPA[ɲ], sh =IPA [ʃ], w =IPA [β]