Language name and location: Desiya, Chhattisgarh, Odisha India [Refer to Ethnologue]
言名称和分布地区德西雅语, 印度东部恰蒂斯加尔邦和奥迪萨邦

 

1. ek

21.  koɖe ek

2. duj

22.  koɖe dul

3. tin

23.  koɖe tin

4. t͡sar

24.  koɖe t͡sari

5. pant͡s / pãt͡s

25.  koɖe pant͡s

6. t͡so (alsoː so)

26.  koɖe t͡so

7. sat

27.  koɖe sat

8. aʈ

28.  koɖe aʈ

9. no

29.  koɖe no

10. dos

30.  koɖe dos (20+10)

11. egaro

40.  duj koɖe (2 x 20)

12. bːro

50.  duj koɖe dos

13. tero

60.  tin koɖe (3 x 20)

14. coudo

70.  tin koɖe dos

15. pondro

80.  t͡sar koɖe (4 x 20)

16. solo

90.  t͡sar koɖe dos

17. sotro

100. soje

18. oʈro

200. duj so, 400. t͡sar so, 800. aʈ so

19. onis (20 - 1)

1000. od͡ʒar

20. koɖe

2000. duj od͡ʒar

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Felix Rau, Linguistics Department, Leiden University, the Netherlands, July 18, 2018
提供资的语言学家: Dr. Felix Rau, 2008 年 7 月 18 日.

 

Other comments: Desiya has a vigesimal numeral system similar to that of Kotia language. As a South Asian language an important numeral is for 100,000 (as in Indian English lakh): 100,000 lak or lokjo, rarely used is the numeral for 10,000,000 (an in Indian English crore): 10,000,000 koʈi.
Note: Desia and Adivasi Oriya are the same language, i.e. Glottolog: adiv1239 ISO 639-3 ort. Desia (or less frequently Desia Oriya) is the name used by most of its speakers (as far as I can tell) and it is the general name of that language in Odisha (formerly Orissa )  Adivasi Oriya is the name used mainly in Andhra Pradesh, but not necessarily by the speakers themselves, as not all of them are or identify as Adivasi (i.e. "tribal"). The names do not correspond to any coherent dialect (or sociolect) division.
Kotia Oriya was used by SIL people in the 70s, as they seem to have worked with
people from the Kotia community. Except for early publications of SIL, I haven't seen
it used for the language.
As for the differences between my list and the Adivasi Oriya list:
Vowel length has been reported to be contrastive for some varieties of Desia/Adivasi Oriya, but I have not found a variety for that this is true. It may be true for the varieties of the Araku Valley where the SIL people did most of their work in the 70s, but looking at the various materials from the Araku Valley, I doubt that it is.
I don't know of any claim that aspiration would be contrastive in any variety of Desia/Adivasi Oriya, so I suspect that the aspiration in the Adivasi Oriya list is non-phonemic. In all varieties I know, all unvoiced stops are aspirated and all voiced stops are not.
GoTek and duiTa are definite (or maybe specific) forms of the numerals ek and dui. There is no reason to list them only for one and two. You can add the affix or clitic -Ta to any numeral, e.g.  tinTa and pantsTa and dosTa are all correct and frequently used numerals.
manek for hundred has been reported for Desia/Adivasi Oriya, but it is a volume measure – one "man", a type of measuring container for grains and I have not been able to verify its use as a numeral. As far as I have seen it used, it is always used as a non-numerical quantifiers, similar to "lots of" or "a bunch". (It obviously contains the numeral one "ek", but that is the normal way of counting with quantifiers, manek, dui man, tin man, ...).


Language name and location: Kotia, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, India [Refer to Ethnologue]
言名称和分布地区科提亚 (Adiwasi Oriya), 印度东部恰蒂斯加尔邦和奥迪萨邦

 

1. goʈek

21.  koɖe goʈek

2. dui /duiʈa

22.  koɖe dui

3. tin

23.  koɖe tin

4. t͡ʃari

24.  koɖe t͡ʃari

5. paːnt͡ʃ

25.  koɖe paːnt͡ʃ

6. t͡ʃo

26.  koɖe t͡ʃʰo

7. saːtʰ

27.  koɖe saːtʰ

8. aːʈʰ

28.  koɖe aːʈʰ

9. no

29.  koɖe no

10. dos

30.  koɖe dos (20+10)

11. egaːro

40.  dui koɖe (2 x 20)

12. baːro

50.  dui koɖe dos

13. teːro

60.  tin koɖe (3 x 20)

14. soudo

70.  tin koɖe dos

15. pontro

80.  t͡ʃari koɖe (4 x 20)

16. soɭo

90.  t͡ʃari koɖe dos

17. sɔtrɔ

100. soeː

18. oʈro

200. dui soː

19. onis (20 - 1)

1000. od͡zaːr/ maːnek

20. koɖe

2000. dui od͡zaːr

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Rev. Justus Sathiasingh, Kotia Bible Translator, Indian Bible Society, India, November 23, 2002.
供资料的语言学家: Rev. Justus Sathiasingh, 2002 年 11 月 23 日.

 

Other comments: Kotia or Desiya has a vigesimal numeral system. Desiya or Desiya Oriya is spoken by approximately 220,000 speakers Chhattisgarh state and Odisha state, India.


 

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