Language name and locationː Warao, Sucre state, Venezuela [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 瓦劳语, 委内瑞拉东部阿马库罗州和北部苏克雷州奥里诺科河流域阿马库罗三角州及圭亚那, 苏里南境内

1. hisaka

2. manamo

3. dihanamo

4. manamo-namohasi ( 2 ? )

5. mohabasi

6. mohabasi aria hisaka ( ... plus one)

7. mohabasi aria manamo ( ... plus two)

8. mohabasi aria dihanamo ( ... plus three)

9. mohabasi aria manamo-namohasi ( ... plus four)

10. = Two hands

20. warao hisaka ( lit: ''one warao / one person''),

40. 'our two bodies'

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Grace McCune, TEAM, The Evangelical Alliance Mission , base on childhood experience, November 6, 2013.

提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Grace McCune, 2013 年 11 月 6 日.

Other comments: Warao or Guarao is spoken by approximately 32,900 speakers in 
Delta Amacuro, Monagas, and Sucre states: Orinoco river delta, Venezuela as well as Guyana and Suriname.

Warao has a vigesimal counting system.  I am writing you about Warao counting (after my husband Keith forwarded your letter to me).  Attached is my form filled out for Warao. The main thing I have to add is the number 4: Where our family lived when I was  a child in the 50s and 60s (I wish I could remember the name of the river channel the the Orinoco River delta) it was manamo-namohasi, which has always been a favorite number for me, as you can imagine.  And my older brother and I remember a slightly different pronunciation of the number 5, which may just be our mistake, but I left it in. 

   One other thing: of course the full form of each number was used for stating the number of objects or people.  But when just counting along, after the number 5, one usually just said, .. aria hisaka, arai manamo...  (and one, and two..), taking the last five as already read, until the next multiple of five.  So counting usually sounded like: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, plus 1, plus 2, plus 3, plus 4, 10, plus 1,  plus 2, plus 3, plus 4, 15,... That is what I have to add. My father, Dr. Henry Osborn, did a write-up of the grammar of Warao, but I have no idea if any of it was published, other than a dissertation at Indiana University finished in 1961, I think.    

Language name and locationː Warao, Sucre state, Venezuela [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 瓦劳语, 委内瑞拉东部阿马库罗州和北部苏克雷州奥里诺科河流域阿马库罗三角州及圭亚那, 苏里南境内

1. hisaka, hisa, hisaa

21.  

2. mana, manamo

22.  

3. dihanamo

23.  

4. orabakaya, manamoida

24.  

5. mohaba, mohobasi, moho habasi

25. 

6. mohomatana hisaka

26.  

7. mohomatana manomo

27.  

8. mohomatana dihanamo

28.  

9. mohomatana (arai ) orabakaya

29.  

10. mohoreko (lit: ''both hands'')

30.  warao hisaka arai mohoreko

11. mohoreko arai hisaka

40.  warao manamo

12. mohoreko arai manamo

50.  warao manamo arai mohoreko

13. mohoreko arai dihanamo

60.  warao dihanamo

14. mohoreko arai orabakaya

70.  warao dihanamo arai mohoreko

15. mohoreko arai mohibasi

80.  warao orabaya

16. mohoreko arai mohomatana hisaka

90.  warao orabaya arai mohoreko

17. mohoreko arai mohomat. namamo

100. warao mohobasi

18. mohoreko arai mohomat. dihanamo

200. warao mohoreko

19. mohoreko arai mohomat.

400. warao warao isaka

20. warao hisaka ( lit: ''one person'')

1000.

Linguist providing data and dateː Prof. Andres Romero-Figueroa, University of Oriente Venezuela (Universidad de Oriente Venezuela), Venezuela, July 8, 1993..

提供资料的语言学家: Prof. Andres Romero-Figueroa. 1993 年 7 月 8 日.

Other comments: Warao has a quinary /vigesimal counting system. Note the following terms:

1. moho = hand or finger.

2. moho basi = extended hand, moho habasi literally "the other hand missing'' that is

    say one hand, bahasi means half of a set.

3. mohamatana manami literally means ''2 of the other hand, that is to say 5 + 2.