Dogon Tomo-Kan

Language name and location: Tomo Kan Dogon, Mopti, Mali [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 托莫坎-多贡语, 马里中部莫普提区, 塞古区及布基纳法索境内

1. cíː ~ hinná *	21. pyɛ̀-lɔ́ː túré sàʔá
2. lwɛ́ː ~ lɔ́ː	22. pyɛ̀-lɔ́ː lɔ̀ː sàʔá
3. tàːndí ~ táːndɛ̀ː	23. pyɛ̀-lɔ́ː tàːndí sàʔá
4. náː	24. pyɛ̀-lɔ́ː náː sàʔá
5. nùnà	25. pyɛ̀-lɔ́ː núná sàʔá
6. kúlé	26. pyɛ̀-lɔ́ː kúlé sàʔá
7. sɔ́ː	27. pyɛ̀-lɔ́ː sɔ́ː sàʔá
8. sìlà	28. pyɛ̀-lɔ́ː sílá sàʔá
9. twáː	29. pyɛ̀-lɔ́ː twáː sàʔá
10. pyɛ́w ~ pyɛ̀lɛ̀	30. pyɛ̀-tàːndí
11. pyɛ́lɛ̀ː túré sàʔá	40. pyɛ̀-náː
12. pyɛ́lɛ̀ː lɔ́ː sàʔá	50. pyɛ̀-núná
13. pyɛ́lɛ̀ː tàːndí sàʔá	60. pyɛ̀-kúlé
14. pyɛ́lɛ̀ː náː sàʔá	70. pyɛ̀-sɔ́ː
15. pyɛ́lɛ̀ː núná sàʔá	80. sùŋɡú (archaic form)
16. pyɛ́lɛ̀ː kúlé sàʔá	90. sùŋɡɛ̀ː-pyɛ́w (80+10)
17. pyɛ́lɛ̀ː sɔ́ː sàʔá	100. sùŋɡɛ̀ː-pyɛ́-lwɛ́ [80+(10 x 2)]
18. pyɛ́lɛ̀ː sílá sàʔá	200. sùŋɡù-lɔ́ː pyɛ̀-náː [(80 x 2)+(10 x 4)]
19. pyɛ́lɛ̀ː twáː sàʔá	800. mùjú **
20. pyɛ̀-lɔ́ː	1000.

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Vadim Dyachkov, Department of African Languages, Institute of Linguistics RAS (The Russian Academy of Sciences), Moscow,
Russia, December 9, 2019, December 16, 2020.
Referenceː Vadim Dyachkov, A Grammar of Tomo Kan Dogon
提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Vadim Dyachkov, 2019 年 12 月 9 日, 2020 年 12 月 16 日.

Other comments: Tomo Kan Dogon has an archaic forms for 80 'sùŋú' and 90 'sùŋú pɛ́rú'. Note that some numerals differentiate the forms used for counting and contextual forms that modify a noun in context, there are two forms for numbers 1, 2, 3 and 10ː counting form for 1, 2, 3 and 10 are tʃíː, lwɛ́ː, tàndí and pjɛ́w, and contextual form areː hìnná, lɔ́ː, táːndɛ̀ː and pjɛ̀lɛ̀ː, The tonal changes depend on the number of syllables in a numeral stem. Numerals ‘11’ - ‘19’ are formed according to the scheme: numeral ‘10’ + single-digit numeral + sàʔá ‘plus’. The numeral ‘10’ is presented in these compounds in its L-toned contextual form pyɛ̀lɛ̀ː. The single-digit numerals preserve their tones. The stem túré ‘1’ is not attested elsewhere in Tomo Kan but has evident cognates in related languages (compare Jamsay túrú ‘1’). The stem is also related to the Tomo Kan distributive quantifier tútúrú which is a frozen reduplication (Jamsay tù-tùrú ).
Decimal multiple numerals are formed according to the scheme: numeral ‘10’ + single digit numeral. The numeral ‘10’ is presented in these compounds in form pyɛ̀ which must be L-toned form of the count form pyɛ́w where the stem-final /w/ is erased. The single-digit numerals preserve their tones. Like simple ‘2 – 10’ numerals, decimal multiple compounds are represented by count forms and contextual forms – for example, the numeral ‘30’ is pyɛ-tàːndí when pronounced isolatedly and pyɛ̀-tá:ndɛ́ in context. The numeral ‘80’ is non-standard and is elicited as súŋgù (with the context form súŋgɛ̀:). Single-digit numerals can be added to decimal multiple compounds. They are added according to the same rules that derive ’11 – 19’ numerals. The numeral ‘1’ is presented in such compounds as túré. The tones of single-digit numerals are not affected by the preceding context. The original Tomo Kan system is octagonal. All compounds denoting numerals ‘> 80’ are formed by adding a numeral denoting the required number to the numeral ‘80’: sùŋgɛ̀:-pyɛ́w 90’, sùŋgɛ̀:-pyɛ̀-lwɛ́ ‘100’. The numeral súŋgù in these compounds undergoes tone-dropping. Numerals denoting huge numbers can be hardly elicited and are usually loaned form French. However, some compounds could be elicited by my consultants and exemplifies the model: 200=sùŋgù-lɔ́ː: pyɛ̀-ná:
[(80 x 2) +(10 x 4)]. Other huge numerals are rare and considered archaic. The only example known to me is mùjú '800. I've checked out the data and it seems that there is an interesting thing. mùjú was translated as 'thousand' in a previous Tomo Kan dictionary, but as '800' by my consultant, so it turned out that I don't know the truth. Probably it's archaic and that's why people misuse it. However, in the previous Tomo
Kan grammar mùjú is also translated as '800'.
Note that transcriptions between traditional phonetic symbols and IPAː c stands for IPA [tʃ], j for [dʒ], and y for [j]; and nasalized vowels areː uⁿ=ũ, oⁿ=õ, ɔⁿ=ɔ̃, aⁿ=ã,

iⁿ=ĩ.

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