Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/atjôkô

This Proto-Cariban entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Cariban

Numeral

*atjôkô

1. two

Descendants

• Guianan:
  • ⇒ Apalaí: asakoro
  • Kari'na: oko
  • ⇒ Proto-Taranoan: *acəkənə
    • Akurio: ëekënë
    • ⇒ Carijona: sëkënërë
    • Trió: ëëkënë
  • ⇒ Wayana: sakëne, hakëne
• Kuikuroan:
  • Kuikúro: takeko
• Parukotoan:
  • Hixkaryana: asako
  • Kaxuyana: asakï
  • Waiwai: asakï
• Pekodian:
  • Bakairí: azagâ
  • Ikpeng: arak
  • Pará Arára: adak
• Venezuelan Cariban:
  • Mapoyan:
    • ⇒ Mapoyo: sakenarï
    • ⇒ Yabarana: asakëma
  • Panare: asa', asak
  • Pemongan:
    • ⇒ Akawaio: asakörö, asa'rö, asa'rï
    • ⇒ Macushi: asakî'ne, saakî'ne
    • ⇒ Pemon: sakü'ne
  • Yao (South America): tage
• Ye'kwana: aakö

References

• Gildea, Spike, Doris Payne (2007) “Is Greenberg’s ‘Macro-Carib’ viable?”, in Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, volume 2, number 2, Belém, pages 19–72
• Meira, Sérgio, Bruna Franchetto (2005) “The southern Cariban languages and the Cariban family”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 71, pages 127–192
• Florian Matter, editor (2021), “*atjəkənə / atjəkəne”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2024-03-05
• Meira, Sérgio (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology‎^[2], Houston: Rice University, page 188
• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[3], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 327
• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “aakö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[4], Lyon