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NUMERAL SYSTEMS 
Moreno ( Honduras)! 
(ETH. ANN. 19 
The number names in this dialect present a curious admixture of 
Moreno and Spanish. 
1 aba. 
2 biama. 
3. irua. 
4 gadri. 
5 sene (Sp.). 
6 sis (Sp.). 
set (Sp.). 
8 vit. 
9 nef (Sp.). 
10 dis (Sp.). 
50 
100 
300 
uns (Sp. ). 
dus (Sp.). 
tres (Sp.). 
seis (Sp.). 
ven (Sp.). 
drandi (Sp.). 
biaven=2 20. 
biavendis=2 20+10. 
san (Sp.). 
iruasan=3 < 100. 
For the purpose of showing the evident relation of the Moreno num- 
ber names to those of the Carib group, those of the latter up to 5 are 
added here, from Rafael Celedon’s Gramatica Catecismo i Vocabulario 
de la Lengua Goajira (p. 29). 
lam not aware to what Carib dialect 
these belong, as this is not stated by Uricoechea, who wrote the intro- 
duction in which they are given—probably to that of the Magdalen 
district west of lake Maracaibo. 
Carib 
Sumo (Honduras )* 
tiascobas=(5+-3) 
1 abana. 
2 biama. 
3 irhua, or eleua. 
4 biamburi. 
5 nacobo-aparcu, or abana-huajap (one hand). 
as. 
2 buu’. 
3 baas=(2+17?). 
4. arunca. 
5 cinea (Sp.). 
6 tiascuas=(5-+-1?). 
7 tiascabo=(5-+-2?). 
The author 
follows: 
gives the names 
cincuenta. 
sesenta. 
setenta. 
ochenta. 
cien. 
mil. 
for 50, 60, 70 
32). 
tiascarunca=(5-+-4?). 
salap. 
salap-nica-buu’/=10+2. 
muiaslic. 
muyasloimincosala=20+-10. 
muyas-leibu=20x2. 
muy-as leibas. 
muy-as lelarunca. 
. 80, 100, and 1,000 as 
muy-as leisinca (‘‘sinea’’ Sp.). 
muy-as leitiascobas. 
muy-as leiarunca, 
muy-as leisala. 
1 Alberto Membreio, Hondurenismos, p. 200. 

2Tbid., pp. 225 
