Waorani is an indigenous language from Ecuador. The following arithmetic expressions involve the numbers from 1 to 10 in Waorani. The x symbol is used to denote multiplication. The square of a number n is marked as n². Each underlined sequence represents one number from 1 to 10.
(A) mẽña mẽña mẽña mẽña + mẽña go mẽña = ãẽmãẽmpoke go aroke × 2
(B) aroke² + mẽña² = ãẽmãẽmpoke
(C) ãẽmãẽmpoke go aroke² = mẽña go mẽña × ãẽmãẽmpoke mẽña go mẽña
(D) mẽña × ãẽmãẽmpoke = tipãẽmpoke
H-1 Can you write these numbers in Waorani?
3 =
5 =
7 =
10 =
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