Saraveca language

{{Infobox language

| name = Saraveca

| states = Bolivia

| region = Eastern lowlands

| extinct = after 2000

| familycolor = arawakan

| fam1 = Arawakan

| fam2 = Southern ?

| fam3 = Paresí–Xingu

| fam4 = Paresí

| map2 = Lang Status 01-EX.svg

| iso3 = sar

| glotto = sara1331

| glottorefname = Saraveca

| altname = Sarave

| nativename = {{lang|sar|Saraveca}}

| speakers2 = possibly some rememberers

| ethnicity = Sarave(ca)

}}

Saraveca is an extinct Arawakan language once spoken in Bolivia by the Sarave.{{Cite journal |last=de Créqui-Montfort |first=G. |last2=Rivet |first2=P. |date=1913 |title=Linguistique Bolivienne. La Langue Saraveka |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44387224 |journal=Journal de la Société des américanistes |volume=10 |pages=497–540 |issn=0037-9174}}{{Cite journal |last=Danielsen |first=Swintha |date=January 2013 |title=Evaluating historical data (wordlists) in the case of bolivian extinct languages |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1524/stuf.2013.0014/html |journal=STUF - Language Typology and Universals |volume=66 |issue=3 |doi=10.1524/stuf.2013.0014 |issn=2196-7148}} By 1962, most people has switched to Chiquitano.{{Ethnologue17|sar}}

Numbers

It is said{{cite book |last=Wells |first=David |title=The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers |publisher=Penguin UK |year=1997 |isbn=978-0-14-026149-3 |page=60}}{{Cite web |title=Numerals and numeral systems {{!}} Examples & Symbols {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/science/numeral |access-date=2025-01-01 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}} to be the only language with a numeral system based exclusively on five, although quinary systems exist. 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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|+Saraveca numerals

!Number

!Saraveca

one

|atia

two

|iñama

three

|anahama

four

|azarakapa