Language name and locationː Southern Carrier, BC, Canada [Refer to Ethnologue]
语言名称和分布地区: 南部卡列尔语, 加拿大卑詩省阿纳希姆湖地区

 

1. łʌkʼi

21.  nat lanezi ʔoʔat łʌkʼi

2. nankoh  

22.  nat lanezi ʔoʔat nankoh   

3. takʼi

23.  nat lanezi ʔoʔat takʼi 

4. dinkʼi

24.  nat lanezi ʔoʔat dinkʼi

5. skʷʌnlai 

25.  nat lanezi ʔoʔat skʷʌnlai  

6. łkʼʌtakʼi *

26.  nat lanezi ʔoʔat łkʼʌtakʼi

7. łtakʼaltʼi

27.  nat lanezi ʔoʔat łtakʼaltʼi

8. łkʼʌdinkʼi **

28.  nat lanezi ʔoʔat łkʼʌdinkʼi

9. łʌkʼi hulah (lit: "one missing")

29.  nat lanezi ʔoʔat łʌkʼi hulah

10. lanezi

30.  tat lanezi

11. lanezi ʔoʔat łʌkʼi

40.  dit lanezi

12. lanezi ʔoʔat nankoh   

50.  skʷʌnlat lanezi 

13. lanezi ʔoʔat takʼi

60.  łkʼʌtat lanezi   

14. lanezi ʔoʔat dinkʼi

70.  łtakʼaltʼit lanezi   

15. lanezi ʔoʔat skʷʌnlai  

80.  łkʼʌdit lanezi   

16. lanezi ʔoʔat łkʼʌtakʼi

90.  łʌkʼi hulah lanezi   

17. lanezi ʔoʔat łtakʼaltʼi

100. lanezi lanezi

18. lanezi ʔoʔat łkʼʌdinkʼi

200. nat lanezi lanezi

19. lanezi ʔoʔat łʌkʼi hulah

1000. N/A  

20. nat lanezi

2000. N/A  

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. William J. Poser, Yinka Dene Language Institute and the University of British Colombia, BC, Canada, July 24, 2021.
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的语言学家: Dr. William J. Poser, 2021 年 7 月 24 日

 

Other comments: Southern Carrier or Dakelh is spoken lesser 500 speakers in British Columbia province: west of Quesnel and south of Cheslatta lake, Anahim Lake-Ulkatcho, toward the Fraser river and tributaries, Canada. The above data was taken from Ulkatcho Dialect of Southern Carrier. one of the two major dialects within what I call "Blackwater Carrier", which is what calls "Southern Carrier".
These are the generic numbers, used for counting most things and when reciting the numbers. There are four more sets of numbers: human - used for counting people and dogs, locative – for places,  multiplicative  - for times (e.g. "we have been there three times)" and periods of time (week, month), and abstract – for abstract things, such as kinds and ideas. The forms used to form the decades are the multiplicative forms, e.g. nat is "twice, two times" and is also used in expressions like "two months".
It is clear how larger numbers might be formed, e.g. 2000=nat lanezi lanezi lanezi "twice ten-times ten-times ten", but I never observed these in use and when speakers are asked about them they agree that that is how such numbers would be formed if they were to form them, but "we don't".
Current speakers are all bilingual and even very fluent speakers tend to use English numbers when speaking Carrier for numbers of any size or complexity. The notation is Athabaskanist IPA – the "voiced "series are really unaspirated, the "voiceless" series aspirated.

As in all varieties of Carrier, 6 is transparently "threes on top of each other",  8 is transparently  "fours on top of each other",  and 9 is "one missing".


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