Saraveca language
| Saraveca | |
|---|---|
| Sarave | |
| Saraveca | |
| Native to | Bolivia |
| Region | Eastern lowlands |
| Ethnicity | Sarave(ca) |
| Extinct | after 2000 possibly some rememberers |
Arawakan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sar |
| Glottolog | sara1331 |
| ELP | Saraveca |
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Saraveca is an extinct Arawakan language once spoken in Bolivia by the Sarave.[1][2] By 1962, most people has switched to Chiquitano.[3]
Numbers
It is said[4][5] to be the only language with a numeral system based exclusively on five, although quinary systems exist. To some extent this is also an areal feature of other South American languages; many form their numbers 6–9 as "five + one", "five + two" and so on.
| Number | Saraveca |
|---|---|
| one | atia |
| two | iñama |
| three | anahama |
| four | azarakapa |
| five | ara-piaiče |
References
- ^ a b de Créqui-Montfort, G.; Rivet, P. (1913). "Linguistique Bolivienne. La Langue Saraveka". Journal de la Société des américanistes. 10: 497–540. ISSN 0037-9174.
- ^ Danielsen, Swintha (January 2013). "Evaluating historical data (wordlists) in the case of bolivian extinct languages". STUF - Language Typology and Universals. 66 (3). doi:10.1524/stuf.2013.0014. ISSN 2196-7148.
- ^ Saraveca language at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- ^ Wells, David (1997). The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers. Penguin UK. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-14-026149-3.
- ^ "Numerals and numeral systems | Examples & Symbols | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2025-01-01.