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Many Arawakan languages have only three or four number words, needing to use phrases or long compound words for higher numerals. Aruan appears to have been such a language. Only words for the numbers one through four were recorded by Ferreira Penna.
Aruan language pronunciation guide
![]() | aucéyre |
![]() | dekuráma |
![]() | ukeduke |
![]() | aràyxyaduke |

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