Saraveca

Saraveca

language
name=Saraveca
states=Bolivia
region=Eastern jungle
speakers=0
familycolor=American
fam2=Arawakan
fam3=Maipurean
fam4=Southern Maipurean
fam5=Central Branch
fam6=Paresí
script=
iso3=sar

Saraveca is an extinct Arawakan language once spoken in Bolivia by the Sarave. It is said [David Wells, "The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers", ISBN 0-14-026149-4] [Encyclopædia Britannica, "Numerals and numeral systems".] 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.

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