Saraveca
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| Saraveca | ||
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| Spoken in: | Bolivia | |
| Region: | Eastern jungle | |
| Total speakers: | 0 | |
| Language family: | American Arawakan Maipurean Southern Maipurean Central Branch Paresí 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. | ||
Saraveca is an extinct Arawakan language once spoken in Bolivia by the Sarave. It is said[1][2] to be the only language with a numeral system based exclusively on five, though in fact quinary systems are not uncommon. 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.
[edit] References
- ^ David Wells, The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers", ISBN 0-14-026149-4
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica, "Numerals and numeral systems".
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