Proto-Amerind Numerals.
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Abstract
The Amerind language family includes all the aboriginal languages of North and South America, except for those belonging to the Eskimo-Aleut and Na-Dene families. Comparative linguistic evidence from extant (or attested) Amerind languages indicates that Proto-Amerind-the language from which all Amerind languages derive-used a system of counting in which an obligatory numeral prefix, *ne-, preceded the numeral root. The first three numerals in Proto-Amerind seem to have been *ne-k'we‘1, ’*ne-pale‘2, ’and *ne-qwalas‘3.’A fourth numeral, Proto-Amerind *ta-pale‘4, ’combined a reflexive prefix with the Proto-Amerind root for‘2’in order to express the number‘4.’
Journal
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- Anthropological Science
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Anthropological Science 103 (3), 209-225, 1995
The Anthropological Society of Nippon
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- CRID
- 1390282679287044352
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- NII Article ID
- 10002616599
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- NII Book ID
- AA10915022
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- ISSN
- 13488570
- 09187960
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- NDL BIB ID
- 3305138
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- Text Lang
- en
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- JaLC
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