Abua

Language name and location: Abuan, Cross River state, Nigeria [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 阿布亚语, 尼日利亚东南部克罗斯河州

1. òníìn	21. ɪ̀yàldí r'òníìn
2. ɪ̀yàl	22. ɪ̀yàldí r'ɪ̀yàl
3. ɪ̀ráar	23. ɪ̀yàldí r'ɪ̀ráar
4. ɪ̀ɲà	24. ɪ̀yàldí r'ɪ̀ɲà
5. òoɣ	25. ɪ̀yàldí r'òoɣ
6. òdiiɲ	26. ɪ̀yàldí r'òdiiɲ
7. òɗùal	27. ɪ̀yàldí r'òɗùal
8. òβàaɲâ	28. ɪ̀yàldí r'òβàaɲa
9. ésúɣá	29. ɪ̀yàldí r'ésúɣá
10. ɗɪ̀oβ	30. ɪ̀ràardí
11. ɗɪ̀oβ r'òníìn	40. ɪ̀ɲàdí
12. ɗɪ̀oβ r'ɪ̀yàl	50. òoɣdí
13. ɗɪ̀oβ r'ɪ̀ráar	60. òdiìɲdí
14. ɗɪ̀oβ r'ɪ̀ɲà	70. òɗùaldí
15. ɗɪ̀oβ r'òoɣ	80. òβáaɲádí
16. ɗɪ̀oβ r'òdiiɲ	90. ésúɣádí
17. ɗɪ̀oβ r'òɗùal	100. òníìn òkùròn
18. ɗɪ̀oβ r'òβàaɲa	200.
19. ɗɪ̀oβ r'ésúɣá	1000. òníìn óonír
20. ɪ̀yàdí	2000.

Linguist providing data and dateː Rev. Ian Gardner, Nigeria Bible Translation Trust, Nigeria, February 25, 2009. December 19, 2016.

提供资料的语言学家: Rev. Ian Gardner, 2009 年 2 月 25 日, 2016 年 12 月 19 日.

Other comments: Abua or Abuan is spoken by approximately 25,000 speakers in
Rivers state: Ahoada and Degema LGAs, Nigeria. Abuan has an old counting system which was unable to handle large numbers- 400 being the highest. The number one always behaves like a descriptive adjective; the numerals 2-9 are indeclinable. Any of these might be added to the numbers 20, 30, 40 and 60, with e.g. 79 becoming 60 +10 + 9. 80 and numbers up to 400 and beyond all involved both multiplication and addition always using 20 or 400 as the basic e. g. 119 was 5 times 20 + 10+ 9; 519 was 400 + 5 times 20 plus ten plus 9. The system is now in the process of being changed to multiples of 10, 100, 1000 which of course suits the modern world much better. The notation will need to be reinterpreted first into the Abuan orthography, then into IPA. The symbol [ before b, d, a, e, i, o, u means that each of these letters has a subscript dot in the orthography; this subscript dot is an implosive marker in the case of the consonants and a concord marker in the case of the vowels. A dotted vowel in the orthography indicates that all preceding vowels in the word are also dotted (lax vowels). Absence of subscript dot under a vowel means that that vowel is a tense vowel. We have 10 vowels in Abuan and two kinds of b and d, implosive and explosive.

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