Language name and location: Ahtena, Copper River, Alaska, USA [Ref to Ethnologue]
言名称和分布地区: 阿特纳语, 美国阿拉斯加南部铜河地区

 

1. tsʼełk’ey ( C, M), tsʼełk’ey (L)

21.  tsʼiłɡhatne tsʼełk’ey uk’edi (C, L)

2. nadaeɢi

22. 

3. ta:ʼi (L, C),  ta:ʼɢi (C, U),  ta:kʼi (W)

23. 

4. dencʼih (C, L), dencʼii (M, W)

24.  

5. ʔałts’eni

25.  

6. ɡista:ni (C, L)

26. 

7. kontsʼaɣi

27.  

8. łk’edencʼih ( C, L), łk’edencʼil (M, W),

28.  

9. kʼetnesi (M), tsʼełk’ey kole (C, L)

29.  

10. hʷlazaːn

30.  taː xundelaːyi (L, C), taː deztaːn (M)

11. tsʼełk’ey uk’edi

40.  denes xundelaːyi (L, C), dencʼih deztaːn

12. nadaeɢi uk’edi

50.  ʔałts’en xundelaːyi (L, C) ʼałts’eni deztaːn

13. taːʼi uk’edi  

60.  ɡistaːn xundelaːyi (L, C)

14. dencʼih uk’edi

70.  kontsʼaɣi xundelaːyi (L, C),

15. ʔałts’eni uk’edi

80.  łk’edencʼih xundelaːyi (L, C),

16. ɡistaːni uk’edi

90.  tsʼełk’ey kole xundelaːyi (L, C)

17. kontsʼaɣi uk’edi

100. ɢesdlaːni (L), dɣesdlaːni

18. łk’edencʼih  uk’edi

200. 

19. tsʼehłaɡn deːtaːn uk’edi

1000.

20. naː xundelaːyi (L, C)

2000.

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. James Kari, Alaska Native Language Centre, University of Alaska at Fairbanks, Alaska, USA, November 30, 2006.

Mr. Paul Milanowski, SIL International, Canada, August 12, 2014.  

Reference sourceː Ahtna Noun Dexterity, compiled by James Kari and Mildred Buck, Alaska Native Language Centre, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, 1975.

提供资的语言家: Dr. James Kari, 2006 年 11 月 30 日.

 

Other comments: Ahtna or Ahtena is an endangered language only spoken by about 15 speakers out of 500 ethnic population. The Ahtna people's homeland called Atna Nenn', is located in the Copper River area of southern Alaska, and the name Ahtna derives from the local name for the Copper River. Ahtna has a decimal system. The above set is used to count things, there is another set for counting people. There are some dialectical differences on numbers. (Central Ahtna, Middle Ahtna, Lower Ahtna and Upper Ahtna bands).

20. naa xundelaayi (L, C), tsʼiłɡhatne (Centra Ahtna), naa deztaan (Central Ahtna)

21ː tsʼiłɡhatne tsʼełk’ey uk’edi (C, L), tsʼiłɡhatne kanii tsʼełk’ey  (Centra Ahtna),

      naa deztaan tsʼełk’ey (Middle Ahtna)

60. ɡistaan xundelaayi (L, C), ɡistaan deztaan  (M) 

70.  kontsʼaɡhi  xundelaayi (L, C), kontsʼaɡhi deztaan  (M) 

80. łk’edencʼih xundelaayi (L, C), łk’edencʼih deztaan (M) 

90.  łk’edencʼih xundelaayi (L, C), kʼetnesi deztaan (M )

100. ɡɡesdlaani (L), dɡhesdlaani, dɡhesdlaane (C), tseles desdlaann, nadelaay (M)

Note that the Phonetic transcriptions between IPA and phonetic Americanistː

   ł = IPA [ɬ], tsʼ =IPA [tsʼ], a voiceless ejective affricate,  c = IPA [kʰ], cʼ = IPA [kʼ],

   ɡh = IPA [ɣ], ʼ = IPA [ʔ], ɡɡ = IPA [ɢ], a = IPA [ʌ ~ a], aa = IPA [ɔː],

   ae = IPA [æː], i = IPA [ɪ ~ i], u = IPA [ʊ],  uu = IPA [u]


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