Language name and locationː Iyojwa’ja Chorote, Argentina [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 伊约瓦雅-乔罗蒂语, 阿根廷西北部萨尔塔省及巴拉圭境内

1. i'hw^jɛnhliʔ  

2. ti'mes

3. ʔna'hapɛ

4. ih'n^yuhlits’iʔ

5. i'hw^jɛnhli si'k^jᴐʔ i'tihʔwɛʔ (lit: ‘one our hand is exhausted’)

6. i'hw^jɛnhli tom ʔni'hi (lit: ‘one our hand is exhausted [and] one is placed over there’)

7. i'hw^jɛnhli siˈk^jᴐʔ i'tihʔweʔ ti'mes tom ʔni'hi
   (lit: ‘one our hand is exhausted [and] two are placed over there’)

8. i'hw^jɛnhli sik^jᴐʔ i'tihʔwɛʔ ʔna'hapɛ tom ʔni'hi

9. i'hw^jɛnhli sik^jᴐʔ i'tihʔwɛʔ ih'n^yuhlits’iʔ tom ʔni'hi

10. i'tihwam niwa si'k^jᴐjɛʔ (lit: ‘exhausted our hands’)

11. i'tihwam (niwa) si'k^jᴐjɛʔ i'hw^jɛnhli tom ʔni'hi (lit: ‘exhausted our hands [and]
     one is placed over there’)

12. i'tihwam (niwa) si'k^jᴐjɛʔ ti'mes tom ʔni'hi

13. i'tihwam (niwa) si'k^jᴐjɛʔ ʔna'hapɛ tom ʔni'hi

14. i'tihwam (niwa) si'k^jᴐjɛʔ  ih'n^yuhlits’iʔ tom ʔni'hi

15. i'tihwam (niwa) si'k^jᴐjɛʔ i'hw^jɛnhli si's^jɛt tom ʔni'hi (lit: ‘exhausted our hands
     [and] one our foot is placed over there’)

Linguist providing data and date: Dr. Javier J. Carol, University of Buenos Aires (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires), Argentina, March 2, 2014.

提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Javier J. Carol, 2014 年 3 月 2 日

Other comments:  Iyojwa’ja Chorote or Manjui is spoken by approximately 1,500 speakers in Salta province, Argentina as well as Paraguay. The above data is from Manjui dialect of Iyojwa’ja Chorote which might have a counting system up to 20 before using fingers and toes, the point is that for numerals above 10 Spanish numbers seem to be used, but I am not sure where 'Chorote ends and Spanish starts'. I am sending you the data I have collected up to now from Iyojwa’aja Chorote – Salta Province, Argentina.

Note:

-Numbers from five are transparent syntactic constructions. Accordingly, they may show some variation related to regular syntactic alternations in the language, e.g.

Nahˈkapis     tiˈmes siˈkjo            iˈtihʔwe                           iˈhn^jujlits’i  tom                        ʔniˈhi

years         two                  our.hand           is.exhausted      four          are.placed        over there

‘Fourteen years’ (Sinia’ Jlamtis [New Testament translation into Iyojwa’ja Chorote] 1997. Buenos Aires: Sociedad Bíblica Argentina). 

-For numbers above 15 Spanish numbers are used. But Spanish words for ‘14’ have also been documented, so I don’t know for sure which ‘true Chorote’ numerals are being used now.

-Basic (=low) numerals are verbs and inflect as such. For instance, i-hw^jenhliʔ is ‘I am one/alone’, cf. si-hwanhliʔ ‘we are one/alone’, in-hwanhliʔ ‘you are one/alone’, etc. Some belong to an adjective-like class which shows, however, verbal prefixes for 1-2 person.

-Notice the dialect name’s spelling is Iyojwa’ja or Iyojwa’aja. The Manjui variation (currently called ‘Lumnanas’ in Paraguay) is a different one, much more akin to the Iyo’wujwa or Iyo’awujwa variation. Manjui is spoken in Paraguay, the other two in Argentina.

Language name and locationː Manjui (Chorote), Paraguay [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 曼胡伊语 (乔罗蒂语 Chorote), 巴拉圭, 阿根廷

1. i'hyɛnhɪʔ (litː 'one finger')

2. ɪn'tɑkʰ (litː 'two fingers')

3. i'jitʔʃɛɛlʌ (litː 'three together')

4. ɪn'ʔseɪkʰ (litː 'four fingers')

5. i'hjɛnhɪʔ ʃi'kiɔɪʔ 'nohwʌmʔ (litː 'our one hand used up')

6. i'hjɛnhɪʔ toʊm ʔnɛ'hɛʔ (litː 'one from over there')

7. ɪn'tɑkʰ toʊm ʔnɛ'hɛʔ (litː 'two from over there')

8. i'jitʔʃɛɛlʌ toʊm ʔnɛ'hɛʔ (litː 'three from over there')

9. ɪn'ʔseɪkʰ toʊm ʔnɛ'hɛʔ (litː 'four from over there')

10. ʃiki'jeɪ 'nohwʌmʔ (litː 'our hands used up', almost obsolete now)

11. i'hjɛnhɪʔ 'ʃuhw'kiʔ 'tɛlɛteɪ (litː 'our one toe down there', obsolete) 

12. ɪn'tɑkʰ 'ʃuhw'kiʔ 'tɛlɛteɪ (litː 'our two toes down there', obsolete) 

13.  i'jitʔʃɛɛlʌ 'ʃuhw'kiʔ 'tɛlɛteɪ (litː 'our three toes down there', obsolete)

14. i'jitʔʃɛɛlʌ 'ʃuhw'kiʔ 'tɛlɛteɪ (litː 'our four toes down there', obsolete) 

15. Spanish numbers used now.

Linguist providing data and dateː Mr. Gordon Hunt, NTM, Paraguay, February 11, 2012.

提供资料的语言学家: Mr. Gordon Hunt, 2012 年 2 月 11 日

Other comments: Manjui or Iyojwa’ja Chorote might have a counting system up to 20 before using fingers and toes, but they only keep the traditional numerals from 1 to 10

now.