aakö

See also: aako

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

Bolívar state	aakö
Brazil	aakä

Ye'kwana numbers ^(edit)

	20
[a], [b] ←  1	2	3  → [a], [b], [c]
Cardinal: aakö

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aːkə]

Numeral

aakö

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

Derived terms

• aakö'kö
• aaköiche'a
• aakösammödö

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “aakö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “a:kö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• 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