Editing Guanche language (section)

==Numerals==
Guanche numerals are attested from several sources, not always in good agreement (Barrios 1997). Some of the discrepancies may be due to copy errors, some to [[gender]] distinctions, and others to [[Arabic]] borrowings in later elicitations. Recco's early 1341 record notably uses Italian-influenced spelling.

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![[Number]]!!Recco<br>(1341)!!Cairasco<br>(song, 1582)!!Cedeño<br>(c. 1685)!!Marín de Cubas<br>(1687, 1694)!!Sosa<br>(copy of 1678)!!Abreu<br>(attrib. to 1632)!!Reyes<br>(1995 reconstruction)!![[Proto-Berber]]
|-
![[1]]
|vait*
|*be
|ben, ven-ir-
|becen~been, ben-ir-
|ben, ben-ir-
|been (ben?), ben-i-
|*wên
|*yiwan
|-
![[2]]
|smetti, smatta-
|*smi
|liin, lin-ir-
|liin, sin-ir-~lin-ir-
|lini (sijn)
|lini, lini-
|*sîn
|*sin
|-
![[3]]
|amelotti, amierat-
|*amat
|amiet
|amiet~amiat, am-ir-
|amiat (amiet)
|amiat
|*amiat
|*karaḍ
|-
![[4]]
|acodetti, acodat-
|*aco
|arba
|arba
|arba
|arba
|*akod
|*hakkuẓ
|-
![[5]]
|simusetti, simusat-
|*somus
|canza~canse
|canza
|cansa
|canza
|*sumus
|*sammus
|-
![[6]]
|sesetti, sesatti-
|?
|sumus
|sumui~sumus
|sumus
|smmous
|*sed
|*saḍis
|-
![[7]]
|satti
|*set
|sat
|sat
|sat (sá)
|sat
|*sa
|*sah
|-
![[8]]
|tamatti
|*tamo
|set
|set
|set
|set
|*tam
|*tam
|-
![[9]]
|alda-marava,
nait
|?
|acet~acot
|acot
|acot
|acot
|*aldamoraw
|*tiẓ(ẓ)ah~tuẓah
|-
![[10]]
|marava
|*marago
|marago
|marago
|marago
|marago
|*maraw~maragʷ
|*maraw
|}
<nowiki>*</nowiki> Also {{transliteration|gnc|nait}},' an apparent copy error. Similarly with {{transliteration|gnc|alda-morana}} for expected *{{transliteration|gnc|italic=no|alda-marava}}.

Later attestations of 11–19 were formed by linking the digit and ten with ''-ir'': {{transliteration|gnc|benirmarago, linirmarago,}} etc. 20–90 were similar, but contracted: {{transliteration|gnc|linago, amiago,}} etc. [[100]] was {{transliteration|gnc|maraguin}}, apparently 10 with the Berber plural ''-en''. Recco only recorded [[1]]–16; the combining forms for 11–16, which did not have this ''-ir-'', are included as the hyphenated forms in the table above.

[[Spanish language|Spanish]] does not distinguish {{IPA|[b]}} and {{IPA|[v]}}, so ''been'' is consistent with *veen. The Berber feminine ends in ''-t'', as in [[Shilha language|Shilha]] [[1]]: ''yan'' (m), ''yat'' (f); [[2]]: ''sin'' (m), ''snat'' (f), and this may explain discrepancies such as ''been'' and ''vait'' for 'one'.

Cairasco is a misparsed counting song, {{transliteration|gnc|besmia mat acosomuset tamobenir marago}}. ''Ses'' '[[6]]' may have got lost in the middle of {{transliteration|gnc|somuset}} ( ← *{{transliteration|gnc|italic=no|somussesset}}).

Starting with Cedeño, new roots for '[[2]]' and '[[9]]' appear ('9' perhaps the old root for '[[4]]'), new roots for '[[4]]' and '[[5]]' (''arba, kansa'') appear to be Arabic borrowings, and old '[[5]]', '[[6]]', '[[7]]' offset to '[[6]]', '[[7]]', '[[8]]'.