Language name and locationː Tabasco Chontal, Mexico [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 塔巴斯科-琼塔尔语 (琼塔尔-玛雅语 Chontal Maya / 约科坦语 Yokot’an), 墨西哥东南部塔瓦斯科州

1. ʔum pʼe

2. ča pʼe

3. ʔuš pʼe

4. čäm-pʼe

5. ʔun kʼa  (kʼa'=group of five) or ho pʼe

6. ʔun kʼa tom pʼe (tom is a contraction of ta + "um for six'') or wäk pʼe

7. ʔun kʼa ta ča pʼe

8. ʔun kʼa (ta) ʔuš pʼe 

9. ʔun kʼa (ta) čäm pʼe 

10. ča kʼa

11. used Spanish borrowing

12. used Spanish borrowing 

13. used Spanish borrowing

14. used Spanish borrowing 

15. ʔuš kʼa

16. used Spanish borrowing 

17. used Spanish borrowing 

18. used Spanish borrowing 

19. used Spanish borrowing 

20. čän kʼa

Linguists providing data and dateː Dr. Susan Knowles-Berry, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA, September 16, 2023.

提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Susan Knowles-Berry, 2023 年 9 月 16 日.

Other comments: Tabasco Chontal or Chontal Maya, Yokot’an is spoken by approximately 60,600 speakers (2020 INEGI) in Tabasco state: 21 towns north-central and south Mexico. Tabasco Chontal has a vigesimal system. Nowadays, Spanish numbers have been used from 11 onwards.

Notesː The word 'kʼa' = group of five as in numbers 5, 10, 15 and 20. and for number six: "tom is a contraction of ta + "um for six".