Language name and location: Baïnounk Gubëeher, Senegal [Refer to Ethnologue]

言名称和分布地区古贝赫尔-巴尼荣语, 塞内加尔西南部卡萨芒斯地区

 

1. -nduk

21.  unam aŋɡa -nduk

2. -na:k

22.  unam aŋɡa -naːk

3. -lal:

23.  unam aŋɡa -lalː

4. -rendek

24.  unam aŋɡa -rɛndɛk

5. cilax (lit: ''hand'')

25.  unam aŋɡa cilax

6. cilax aŋɡa -nduk   (5+1)

26.  unam aŋɡa cilax aŋɡa -nduk

7. cilax aŋɡa -na:k    (5+2)

27.  unam aŋɡa cilax aŋɡa -naːk 

8. cilax aŋɡa -lal:      (5+3)

28.  unam aŋɡa cilax aŋɡa -lalː

9. cilax aŋɡa -rɛndɛk (5+4)

29.  unam aŋɡa cilax aŋɡa -rɛndɛk

10. ha:lax (litː ''feet'')

30.  unam aŋɡa haːlax

11. ha:lax aŋɡa -nduk

40.  ɲannaminak (20 x 2)

12. ha:lax aŋɡa -na:k

50.  ɲannaminak aŋɡa haːlax 

13. ha:lax aŋɡa -lal:

60.  ɲannamillal  (20 x 3)

14. ha:lax aŋɡa -rɛndɛk

70.  ɲannamillal aŋɡa haːlax 

15. ha:lasidi:x (lit: ''feet and hand'')

80.  ɲannamirɛndɛk (20 x 4)

16. ha:lasidi:x aŋɡa -nduk

90.  ɲannamirɛndɛk aŋɡa haːlax

17. ha:lasidi:x aŋɡa -na:k

100. teːmer, 200. teːmeŋ anaːkaŋ

18. ha:lasidi:x aŋɡa -lal:

400. teːmeŋ arendekeŋ

19. ha:lasidi:x aŋɡa -rɛndɛk

800. teːmeŋ cilax aŋɡa alal:aŋ

20. unam (lit: ''king'')

1000. wuli, 2000. wulieŋ anaːkaŋ

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Alexandr Cobbinah, SOAS, University of London, London, U.K., April 17, 2015.

供资料的语言学家: Dr. Alexandr Cobbinah, 2015 年 4 月 17 日.

 

Other comments: Baïnounk Gubëeher is spoken by approximately 1,000 -1,500 persons, most of which live in the village of Djibonker (local toponym: Jibëeher) ca. 15 km southwest of the provincial capital Ziguinchor on the main road to Oussouye/Cap
Skirring.
Numerals in Gubëeher always stand after the noun like all other modifiers. Numerals from ‘one’ to ‘four’ and all numbers whose last digit is ‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’ or ‘4’, agree with the class of the noun they modify. The counting system of Baïnounk Gubëeher is quinary, its base of 5 adopting a body part model up to 20. From 20 to 99 it is vigesimal. Accordingly, up to ‘five’ The numbers ‘five’, ‘ten’ and ‘fifteen’ are body part analogies: compare cilax ‘five’ and si-lax ‘hand’, haalax ‘ten’ and ha-lax ‘hands’, and halaa’sidiix ‘fifteen’ (halax + sidiix ‘hands foot’). For the number ‘20’ the word u-nam (plural: ñan-nam ) for ‘king’ is used: this occurs also in other languages spoken in the same region ‒ Bayot and Joola Kaasa use [ə-ji] for both ‘twenty’ and ‘king’, Joola Kujireray and Joola Eegimaa have [ə-vːi]. From 20 to 99 the system of Gubëeher is vigesimal, i.e. based on multiples of u-nam ‘20’. The numbers teemer ‘hundred’ (pl.
teemer-eŋ) and wuli ‘thousand’ (pl. wuli-eŋ) are loans from Wolof and Mandinka
respectively.


 

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