Saraveca language
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| Saraveca | ||
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| Spoken in: | Bolivia | |
| Region: | Eastern jungle | |
| Total speakers: | 0 | |
| Language family: | — Saraveca |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | — | |
| ISO 639-3: | sar | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Saraveca is an extinct Arawakan language once spoken in Bolivia. It is said to be the only language with a counting system based exclusively on five. To a lesser extent, this is an areal feature of South American languages; many form their numbers 6-9 as "five + one", "five + two" and so on.
[edit] References
- ^ David Wells, The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers", ISBN 0-14-026149-4
