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===Numerals=== The Hadza did not count before the introduction of the [[Swahili language]]. Native numerals are ''itchâme'' 'one' and ''piye'' 'two'. ''Sámaka'' 'three' is a [[Datooga language|Datooga]] loan, and ''bone'' 'four', ''bothano'' 'five', and ''ikhumi'' 'ten' are [[Sukuma language|Sukuma]]. ''Aso'' 'many' is commonly used instead of ''bothano'' for 'five'. There is no systematic way to express other numbers without using Swahili. Dorothea Bleek suggested ''piye'' 'two' might have a Bantu source; the closest locally in [[Nyaturu language|Nyaturu]] ''-βĩĩ''. (Other local Bantu languages have an l/r between the vowels.) Sands first recognized the similarity of 'one' and 'two' to Kwʼadza noted above. Militarev notes similar forms to ''piye'' in [[Chadic languages]], such as [[Hausa language|Hausa]] ''bíyúú'' 'two'.{{sfn|Militarev|2023|p=78}}
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