Yambetta

Language name and locationː Yambeta, Cameroun [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 扬贝塔语, 喀麦隆

1. ímùʔ	21. nìtìn nà úmmùʔ
2. mɔ́bààn	22. nìtìn nà mɔ́bààn
3. mɔ́dáád	23. nìtìn nà mɔ́dáád
4. múnìʔ	24. nìtìn nà múnìʔ
5. mɔ́táàn	25. nìtìn nà mɔ́táàn
6. mɔ́táàn nà úmmùʔ ( 5 + 1)	26. nìtìn nà mɔ́táàn nà úmmùʔ
7. mɔ́táàn nà mɔ́bààn ( 5 + 2)	27. nìtìn nà mɔ́táàn nà mɔ́bààn
8. mɔ́táàn nà mɔ́dáád ( 5 + 3)	28. nìtìn nà mɔ́táàn nà mɔ́dáád
9. mɔ́táàn nà múnìʔ ( 5 + 4)	29. nìtìn nà mɔ́táàn nà múnìʔ
10. mɔ́wád	30. nìtìn nà mɔ́wád ( '20 with 10 ')
11. mɔ́wád nà úmmùʔ ( 10 + 1 )	40. ə̀tìn ábààn ( 20's two )
12. mɔ́wád nà mɔ́bààn ( 10 + 2 )	50. ə̀tìn ábààn nà mɔ́wád
13. mɔ́wád nà mɔ́dáád ( 10 + 3 )	60. ə̀tìn ádáád ( 20's three )
14. mɔ́wád nà múnìʔ ( 10 + 4 )	70. ə̀tìn ádáád nà mɔ́wád
15. pùùnìʔ	80. ə̀tìn ə́nìʔ ( 20's four )
16. pùùnìʔ nà úmmùʔ ( 15 + 1 )	90. ə̀tìn ə́nìʔ nà mɔ́wád
17. pùùnìʔ nà mɔ́bààn ( 15 + 2)	100. ə̀tìn átáàn / ɔ́ndɛ́d ( 'ɔ́ndɛ́d '< English )
18. pùùnìʔ nà mɔ́dáád ( 15 + 3 )	200. ə̀tìn jówád / ɔ́ndɛ́d ɛ́bààn
19. pùùnìʔ nà múnìʔ ( 15 + 4 )	1000. tɔ́ɔsɛ̀n ( ' tɔ́ɔsɛ̀n ' from English )
20. nìtìn	2000. tɔ́ɔsɛ̀n ɛ́bààn

Linguist providing data and dateː Bolioki Léonard-Albert through Ginger Boyd,

1 September, 2007. Summer Institute of Linguistics, Cameroun.

提供资料的语言学家: Bolioki Léonard-Albert through Ginger Boyd, 2007 年 9 月 1 日.

Other comments: Yambeta has a vigesimal system with five-based substructure and

a single word for fifteen. The numbers ' ɔ́ndɛ́d ' and ' tɔ́ɔsɛ̀n ' are borrowed from English. The Yambeta numeral system is different from those of other languages in

the Mbam group.

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