Language name and locationː Yawanawa, Brazil [Refer to Ethnologue]

言名称和分布地区纳瓦语, 巴西

 

1. wɨs.'ti

2. ɾa.'βɨ

3. ɾa.'βɨ inũ (''and'') wɨs.'ti  ( 2 + 1 )

4. ɾa.'βɨ inũ (''and'') ɾa.'βɨ  ( 2 + 2 )

5. mɨ.'hi (lit: ''hand'') wɨs.'ti ti (ti=NMLZR)    

6. mɨ.'hi wɨs.'ti inũ mɨ.'tu.ti (finger) wɨs.'ti.ti  

7. mɨ.'hi wɨs.'ti inũ mɨ.'tu.ti ɾa.'βɨ.ti

8. mɨ.'hi wɨs.'ti inũ mɨ.'tu.ti ɾa.'βɨ inũ wɨs.'ti.ti   

9. mɨ.'hi wɨs.'ti inũ mɨ.'tu.ti ɾa.'βɨ inũ ɾa.'βɨ inũ ɾa.'βɨ.ti    

10. mɨ.'hi ɾa.'βɨ.ti  (lit: ''two hands')

11. mɨ.'hi ɾa.'βɨ.ti inũ mɨ.'tu.ti wɨs.'ti.ti  

12. mɨ.'hi ɾa.'βɨ.ti inũ mɨ.'tu.ti ɾa.'βɨ.ti   

13. mɨ.'hi ɾa.'βɨ.ti inũ mɨ.'tu.ti ɾa.'βɨ inũ wɨs.'ti.ti   

14. mɨ.'hi ɾa.'βɨ.ti inũ mɨ.'tu.ti ɾa.'βɨ inũ ɾa.'βɨ.ti   

15. mɨ.'hi ɾa.'βɨ.ti inũ mɨ.'hi wɨs.'ti.ti    

16. mɨ.'hi ɾa.'βɨ.ti inũ mɨ.'hi wɨs.'ti.ti inũ mɨ.'tu.ti.wɨs.'ti.ti     

17. mɨ.'hi ɾa.'βɨ.ti inũ mɨ.'hi wɨs.'ti.ti inũ mɨ.'tu.ti.ɾa.'βɨ.ti     

18. mɨ.'hi ɾa.'βɨ.ti inũ mɨ.'hi wɨs.'ti.ti inũ ɾa.'βɨ inũ wɨs.'ti.ti    

19. mɨ.'hi ɾa.'βɨ.ti inũ mɨ.'hi wɨs.'ti.ti inũ ɾa.'βɨ inũ ɾa.'βɨ.ti

20. mɨ.'hi ɾa.'βɨ.ti inũ ta.ɨ (foot) ɾa.'βɨ.ti 

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Miss Livia Camargo Souza, Graduate Student, Department of Linguistics,  School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, May 14, 2017. Based on the sourceː  Yawanawa mathematics book “Yawanawahãu Tãnãti: Nukẽ Matematica”

供资料的语言学家: Miss Livia Camargo Souza, 2017 年 5 月 14 日.

 

Other comments: The Yawanawa people, like most of Panoan languages has only two words for number and can count up to 2o and predictable to 40, so the other numbers beyond 20 is predictable as followsː

21. mɨ.'hi ɾa.'βɨ.ti inũ ta.ɨ ɾa.'βɨ.ti inũ mɨ.'tu.ti wɨs.'ti.ti

30ː mɨ.'hi ɾa.'βɨ.ti inũ ta.ɨ ɾa.'βɨ.ti inũ mɨ.'hi ɾa.'βɨ.ti ɾi.'hi (also) 

40. mɨ.'hi ɾa.'βɨ inũ ɾa.'βɨ.tiinũ ta.ɨ ɾa.'βɨ inũ.'ɾa.'βɨ.ti


Language name and locationː Yawanawa, Brazil [Refer to Ethnologue]

言名称和分布地区纳瓦语, 巴西

 

1. weste

2. hawe

3. hawe-weste ( 2 + 1 )

4. hawe-hawe ( 2 + 2 )

5. hawe-hawe-weste ( 2 + 2 + 1 )

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Mrs. Diana Green, SIL International, Brazil, April 5, 2012.

供资料的语言学家: Mrs. Diana Green, 2012 年 4 月 5 日.

 

Other comments: The Yawanawa from Acre count up to five by grouping numbers, like most of Panoan languages.


Back >>  [ Home ] >> [ Chibchan ] >> [ Maipurean ] >> [ Cariban ] >> [ Quechuan ] >> [ Tupian ] >>
[ Tucanoan ] >> [ Panoan]  >> [ Other South American Languages ] >>
[ Language isolate ] >> [ Unclassified languages ]