aakö

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See also: aako

Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV aakö
Brazilian standard aakä
New Tribes aacä
Ye'kwana numbers (edit)
20
[a], [b] ←  1 2 3  → [a], [b], [c]
    Cardinal: aakö

Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *atjôkô (two). Compare Kari'na oko, Yao (South America) tage.

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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aakö

  1. two
  2. (in certain expressions) few, little

Derived terms

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References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “aakö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 385:a:kö - two
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “āʔkə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021