Language name and locationː Bungu, Mbeya region, Tanzania [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 本古语, 坦桑尼亚西南部姆贝亚地区

1. -mwi

21.  amakʉmi yawɨlɨ na adyʉmi

2. -wɨlɨ

22.  amakʉmi yawɨlɨ na wawɨlɨ  

3. -tatʉ

23.  amakʉmi yawɨlɨ na watatʉ

4. -ni

24.  amakʉmi yawɨlɨ na wani

5. -sano

25.  amakʉmi yawɨlɨ na wasano

6.  sita       (< Swahili)

26.  amakʉmi yawɨlɨ na sita

7.  saba      (< Swahili)

27.  amakʉmi yawɨlɨ na saba

8.  mʉnane (< Swahili)

28.  amakʉmi yawɨlɨ na mʉnane

9.  tisa       (< Swahili) 

29.  amakʉmi yawɨlɨ na tisa

10. ikʉmi

30.  amakʉmi yatatʉ

11. ikʉmi na adyʉmi

40.  amakʉmi yani

12. ikʉmi na wawɨlɨ 

50.  amakʉmi yasano

13. ikʉmi na watatʉ

60.  amakʉmi sita

14. ikʉmi na wani

70.  amakʉmi saba

15. ikʉmi na wasano

80.  amakʉmi mʉnane  

16. ikʉmi na sita

90.  amakʉmi tisa

17. ikʉmi na saba

100. imya (ɨdyɨmwi), 200. imya zɨwɨlɨ  

18. ikʉmi na mʉnane

400. imyazɨni, 500. imya zɨsano

19. ikʉmi na tisa

1,000. ɨyelʉfu (ɨdyɨmwi), 2,000. ɨyelʉfu zɨwɨlɨ

20. amakʉmi yawɨlɨ

3,000. ɨyelʉfu zɨtatʉ, 4,000. ɨyelʉfu zɨni

Linguist providing data and dateː Miss Hazel Gray, SIL-International, Tanzania, November 23, 2020.

提供资料的语言学家: Miss Hazel Gray, 2020 年 11 月 23 日.

Other comments: Bungu (Kibungu) or Wungu (Chɨwʉngʉ) is spoken by approximately 30,000 speakers in Mbeya region: Chunya district: Mamba, Makongorosi, Matundasi, and Mkola wards; Songwe region, Tanzania. Bungu has a decimal system. The numbers 1-5 take the EP series of agreement prefixes in Bungu in agreement with the class of the head noun. The numerals 6, 7 and 9 are expressed using the Swahili numerals: sita 6, saba 7, and tisa 9. The numeral 8 is made up of a prefix mʉ- and the Swahili numeral nane: mʉnane. The numeral ten, also loaned from Swahili (kumi), does not agree with the noun it is modifying. Instead it has a class 5 nominal prefix for singular ikʉmi, and class 6 nominal prefix for plural, amakʉmi. Other numerals may be used to modify amakʉmi in order to express multiples of ten, for example amakʉmi yani ‘forty’. In table 8.20, where agreement with a head noun is required to express the numeral, class 1/2 agreement is used, and the agreement prefix underlined. For hundreds and thousands, class 9/10 nouns are used: ɨmya ‘100’, ɨyelʉfu ‘1,000’. Both of these are adapted from the Swahili numerals (mia, elfu). As with ‘ten’, multiples are formed by a modifying numeral.