Language name and locationː Tucano, Brazil, Colombia [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 图卡诺语, 巴西西北部亚马逊州热带雨林雅卡雅卡村和附近村落

1. niʔkã́rʉ̃ (with classifier for 'clay pot')

2. pʉárʉ ('two pots') 

3. iʔtiárʉ ('three pots')

4. baʔpáritiseparʉ  ('four pots')

5. niʔkã́mokʉseparʉ ('five pots')

6. niʔkã́mokʉse peʔtí ape ómókã niʔkã́ pẽʔrĩ peháseparʉ ('six pots') literallyː 'one hand finishing, another hand one (meaning one finger of the other hand) crossing-over'

7. niʔkã́mokʉse peʔtí ape ómókã pʉá pẽʔrĩ peháseparʉ ('seven pots') 

8. niʔkã́mokʉse peʔtí ape ómókã iʔtiá pẽʔrĩ peháseparʉ ('eight pots') 

9. niʔkã́mokʉse peʔtí ape ómókã baʔpáritiseparʉ pẽʔrĩ peháseparʉ ('nine pots')    

10. pʉámokʉseparʉ  ('ten pots')    

11. pʉámokʉse peʔtí ape dʉʔpókã niʔkã́ pẽʔrĩ peháseparʉ ('eleven pots')

     Literally 'two hands finishing, another foot one (meaning one toe of the other foot)

     crossing-over'

12. pʉámokʉse peʔtí ape dʉʔpókã pʉá pẽʔrĩ peháseparʉ  ('twelve pots')

13. pʉámokʉse peʔtí ape dʉʔpókã iʔtiá pẽʔrĩ peháseparʉ  ('thirteen pots')

14. pʉámokʉse peʔtí ape dʉʔpókã baʔpáritiseparʉ pẽʔrĩ peháseparʉ 

15. pʉámokʉse peʔtí niʔcã́ dʉʔpókã peháseparʉ  ('fifteen pots')

16. pʉámokʉse peʔtí niʔcã́ dʉʔpókã peʔtí ape dʉʔpókã niʔkã́ pẽʔrĩ peháseparʉ 

     Literally 'two hands finishing, one foot finishing, another foot one (meaning one

     tow of the other foot) crossing-over'

17. pʉámokʉse peʔtí niʔcã́ dʉʔpókã peʔtí ape dʉʔpókã pʉá pẽʔrĩ peháseparʉ  

18. pʉámokʉse peʔtí niʔcã́ dʉʔpókã peʔtí ape dʉʔpókã iʔtiá pẽʔrĩ peháseparʉ  

19. pʉámokʉse peʔtí niʔcã́ dʉʔpókã peʔtí ape dʉʔpókã baʔpáritiseparʉ pẽʔrĩ
     peháseparʉ  ('nineteen pots')

20. pʉámokʉse peʔtí pʉá dʉʔpókã peháseparʉ  (literally, 'twenty pots')

Linguist providing data and dateː Ms. Betty Welch, SIL International, June 9, 2010.

June 1, 2012.

提供资料的语言学家: Ms. Betty Welch, 2010 年 6 月 9 日, 2012 年 6 月 1 日.

Other comments: Tucano or Dasea ye, Tukano, Tukána is spoken by approximately 4,600 speakers out of 11,000 ethnic population in Amazonas state. Wasona users primarily in Yacayacá village, Brazil as well as Colombia.

Tucano has a traditional counting goes up to 20. Note that the numbers must have a classifier, hence there is not the simple number: one, two, three, etc. There is a distinction between animate and inanimate, in that for animate objects, the plural begins with two; for inanimate objects, one, two and three are considered singular, and the plural begins with four. At the present time, the Tucano is used for numbers one through five and ten. Spanish is used for the other numbers, due to the length of the numbers. Note that there is the vowel ‘ʉ’ (barred u), which is the orthographic symbol we use for barred i. There are six oral and six nasal vowels. All vowels following n and m and ñ are nasalized vowels, and are not written. All other nasal vowels are written with the tilde, as in Portuguese.