How to count in Santa Ana Yareni Zapotec
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Language overview
Santa Ana Yareni Zapotec is a Zapotecan language from the Oto-Manguean languages family spoken in Santa Ana Yareni, in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, by about 3,000 speakers.
Due to lack of data, we can only count accurately up to 999 in Santa Ana Yareni Zapotec. Please contact us if you can help us counting up from that limit.
Santa Ana Yareni Zapotec numbering rules
- Digits from one to nine are specific words: ttubi [1], chupa [2], tsunna [3], ttapa [4], gayu [5], xxupa [6], gasi [7], xxunu [8], and jaa [9].
- Numbers from ten to nineteen are specific words too: tsii [10], sinea [11], tsi’inu [12], si’intse [13], sitá [14], tsinu [15], sixupa [16], tsini [17], sixunu [18], and chennia [19]. We can however recognize in some of them the word for ten (tsii) followed by the unit (e.g.: sixunu [18] is a contraction of tsii [10] and xxunu [8]).
- The word for twenty is galhia. Numbers from twenty-one to twenty-nine are formed by adding the suffix -erua to the digit root: ttuerua [21], chuperua [22], tsunnerua [23], ttaperua [24], gayuerua [25], xxuperua [26], gasierua [27], xxunuerua [28], and jaerua [29].
- Santa Ana Yareni Zapotec partially uses the vigesimal system, where some tens (namely seventy and ninety) are formed by adding ten to the previous one: tsii [10], galhia [20], rerua [30], chua [40], tsieyona [50], gayuna [60], gayuna bixxi tsii [70] (60 + 10), tta [80], and tta bixxi tsii [90] (80 + 10). Etymologically, we can note that the word for eighty (tta) is the root of the digit four (ttapa), which could mean that it is a contraction of four times twenty, the same being observed with forty (chua), contraction of two times twenty.
- Regular compound numbers from thirty-one to sixty-nine, and from eighty-one to eighty-nine, are formed by saying the ten, then the word bixxi (and/plus), and the digit (e.g.: rerua bixxi chupa [32], gayuna bixxi xxupa [66]). The digit one, when compound, is shortened from ttubi to ttu (e.g.: tsieyona bixxi ttu [51]). Seventies and nineties are formed by adding the words for eleven to nineteen to the previous ten (e.g.: gayuna bixxi sinea [71], tta bixxi sixunu [98]).
- Hundreds are formed by saying the multiplier digit before the word for hundred (gayua): ttu gayua [100] (note the use of the short one, ttu), chupa gayua [200], tsunna gayua [300]… We can note here again the vigesimal system in use: as gayua is formed on gayu (five), it can be read as the contraction of five times twenty.
Books
San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec Dictionary (Vols. 1 and 2)
editors UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Publications (1999)
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Amazon.com]
Guendaguti ñee sisi / La Muerte de pies ligeros (edición bilingüe zapoteco - español)
by Toledo Natalia, editors Fondo de Cultura Económica (2005)
[ Amazon.com, 
Iberlibro.com]
Diccionario Zapoteco de San Lucas Quiaviní (Vols. 1 y 2)
editors UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Publications (1999)
[ Amazon.com, Iberlibro.com]
Numbers list
| 1 – ttubi 2 – chupa 3 – tsunna 4 – ttapa 5 – gayu 6 – xxupa 7 – gasi 8 – xxunu 9 – jaa | 10 – tsii 11 – sinea 12 – tsi’inu 13 – si’intse 14 – sitá 15 – tsinu 16 – sixupa 17 – tsini 18 – sixunu | 19 – chennia 20 – galhia 30 – rerua 40 – chua 50 – tsieyona 60 – gayuna 70 – gayuna bixxi tsii 80 – tta 90 – tta bixxi tsii | 100 – ttu gayua |
Links
- Let’s read the numbers (.pdf in Spanish)
Oto-Manguean languages
Aloápam Zapotec, Choapan Zapotec, Isthmus Zapotec, Lachixío Zapotec, and Santa Ana Yareni Zapotec.
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