Donno Mombo

Language name and locationː Mombo Dogon, Mali [No reported on Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 蒙博多贡语, 马里

1. yɛ̀ːtáːŋɡù / tíːtà (in counting)	21. pɛ́ːnɛ́ːŋɡá yɛ̀ː táːŋɡá súɡɔ́
2. nɛ́ːŋɡá	22. pɛ́ːnɛ́ːŋɡá nɛ́ːŋɡá súɡɔ́
3. táːndì	23. pɛ́ːnɛ́ːŋɡá táːndì súɡɔ́
4. kɛ́ːjɔ́	24. pɛ́ːnɛ́ːŋɡá kɛ́ːjɔ́ súɡɔ́
5. núːmù	25. pɛ́ːnɛ́ːŋɡá núːmù súɡɔ́
6. kúléyⁿ	26. pɛ́ːnɛ́ːŋɡá kúléyⁿ súɡɔ́
7. sɔ́ːlì	27. pɛ́ːnɛ́ːŋɡá sɔ́ːlì súɡɔ́
8. séːlè	28. pɛ́ːnɛ́ːŋɡá séːlè súɡɔ́
9. tóːwà	29. pɛ́ːnɛ́ːŋɡá tóːwà súɡɔ́
10. pɛ́ːlù	30. pɛ́ːtáːndì
11. pɛ́ːlú yɛ̀ː táːŋɡá súɡɔ́	40. dɛ̂ː
12. pɛ́ːlú nɛ́ːŋɡá súɡɔ́	50. dɛ̀ː ndò pèːlú
13. pɛ́ːlú táːndì súɡɔ́	60. pɛ́ːlú kúléyⁿ
14. pɛ́ːlú kɛ́ːjɔ́ súɡɔ́	70. síŋɡì pɛ́ːlú ólyâː ( 80 - 10 ? )
15. pɛ́ːlú núːmù súɡɔ́	80. síŋɡì
16. pɛ́ːlú kúléyⁿ súɡɔ́	90. síŋɡì ndò pɛ́ːlú ( 80 + 10 )
17. pɛ́ːlú sɔ́ːlì súɡɔ́	100. síŋɡì ndò pɛ̀ː-nɛ́ːŋɡá ( 80 + 20 ) *
18. pɛ́ːlú séːlè súɡɔ́	200. tɛ́mdɛ́rɛ́ nɛ́ŋɡá
19. pɛ́rɛ́ tóːwà súɡɔ́	1000. múnjù, sìlá múnju
20. pɛ́ːnɛ́ːŋɡá	2000. múnjù nɛ́ːŋɡà

Linguist providing data and dateː Mr. Kirill Prokhorov, Ph.D. candidate, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany and Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia. August 1, 2011.

提供资料的语言学家: Mr. Kirill Prokhorov, 2011 年 8 月 1 日.

Other comments: Mombo has an archaic counting system base on 80. They borrowed Fulfulde number 100 'tɛ́mdɛ́rɛ́'.

Mombo (aka Kolu So) is spoken in several villages including Songho that are on or near the highway from Mopti-Sevare to Bandiagara. The Nyambeenge and Ambaleenge varieties reported on Blench's website as potentially distinct languages may turn out to be dialects of Mombo from a linguist's perspective, though not necessarily from that of the local people.

There are several important things about Mombo numeral system as belowː

1) Terms for 160, 240, 320, 400, 480 and 540 are formed by combination of sí, which is shortened síŋgì ‘80’, and a single digit numeral from 2 to 7. Thus sí nɛ́:ŋgá is ‘160’, sí tá:ndì is 240, etc.

2) múnjù also means ‘800’

3) In forties and eighties, a low-toned decimal term is followed by instrumental-comitative ndó and a single-digit (xxx).

(xxx) dɛ̀: ǹdó sé:lè ‘48’

(xxx) sìŋgì ǹdó kɛ́:jɔ́ ‘84’

In the other tens the multiple is followed by a single-digit term, which in its turn is followed by word súgɔ́, functioning like a linking element, but not found elsewhere outside the numerals (as in twenties).

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