Dompo

Language name and location: Dompo, Bono Region, Ghana [Ref to Ethnologue]
语言名称和分布地区: 敦波语, 加纳共和国中西部布朗-阿哈福地区敦波菲村

1. kòó	21. dìɔ̃̀ nɛ́ kòólè
2. ɲɔ̃̀ɔ̃́	22. dìɔ̃̀ nɛ́ ɲɔ̃́
3. sá	23. dìɔ̃̀ nɛ́ sá
4. nàí / nám	24. dìɔ̃̀ nɛ́ nàí
5. nùí / nùm	25. dìɔ̃̀ nɛ́ nùí
6. ʃìɛ́	26. dìɔ̃̀ nɛ́ ʃìɛ́
7. sɔ̃̀nɔ̃́	27. dìɔ̃̀ nɛ́ sɔ̃̀nɔ̃̀
8. brùwɛ̀	28. dìɔ̃̀ nɛ́ brùwɛ̀
9. kpã́nú	29. dìɔ̃̀ nɛ́ kpã́nú
10. krí	30. dìɔ̃̀ nɛ́ krí, 31. dìɔ̃̀ nɛ́ krí kó
11. krí kó	40. dìɔ̃̀ ɲɔ̃́ (20 x 2)
12. krí ɲɔ̃́	50. dìɔ̃̀ ɲɔ̃́ nɛ́ krí
13. krí sá	60. dìɔ̃̀ sá (20 x 3)
14. krí nàí /nám	70. dìɔ̃̀ sá nɛ́ krí (20 x 3 +10)
15. krí nùí /núm	80. dìɔ̃̀ nám (20 x 4)
16. krí ʃìɛ́	90. dìɔ̃̀ nám nɛ́ krí
17. krí sɔ̃́nɔ̃́	100. làfà kòólè, 101. làfà nɛ́ kòólè
18. krí brûwɛ̀	200. làfà ɲɔ̃́, 400. làfa nám
19. krí kpã́nú	1000. kàɡbè kòólè, 2000. kàɡbè ɲɔ̃́
20. dìɔ̃̀	7013. kàɡbè sɔ̃̀nɔ̃́ nɛ́ krí sá

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Esther Desidenyo Manu-Barfo, Department of Languages and Linguistics, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commence, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia, August 23, 2021

Reference source: Esther Desidenyo Manu-Barfo. PhD thesis. A Descriptive Grammar of the Dòmpò Language of Ghana, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia, April 2020.
提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Esther Desidenyo Manu-Barfo, 2021 年 8 月 23 日.

Other comments: Dompo is a moribund language spoken by about six remaining speakers who do not actively speak it amongst themselves. There are a few others who have limited proficiency in the language. It is spoken in Dompofie, a small community located in the North-Western corner of the Bono Region of Ghana, West Africa.
Dompo has a vigesimal system. Dompo has the cardinal number system from one to a thousand. The numeral system from one to ten is made up of single morphemes while the subsequent numbers are compounded. The language uses the decimal base 10 numbering system in counting. This is largely because speakers use their fingers to count in quantities. It also employs the vigesimal or base 20 numbering system for the numbers forty, sixty and eighty in the language. It was observed that the youngest consultant uses nàí for the number four and nùí for five while the oldest consultant uses
nám and nùm for four and five respectively. I also noticed subsequently that they both sometimes interchange the words unconsciously. Additionally, when counting the numbers individually. The numbers which follow, eleven to nineteen, are formed by adding the numbers kòó ‘one’, nyɔ̃̀ɔ̃́ two’, etc. to the decimal number ten with the decimal number preceding the cardinal number. Observe, however, that the last /o/ in kòó and /ɔ/ in nyɔ̃̀ɔ̃́ are lost when the form they occur in comes after the decimal.
The number twenty is made up of a single morpheme dìɔ̃̀. Twenty-one to thirty are connected with the conjunction nɛ́ ‘and’ which occurs between them. We would also observe the addition of a suffix -lè, whose meaning has not been established, to kòó as seen in the number twenty-one. The numbers forty, sixty, eighty are derived when twenty is multiplied by two, three and four respectively. The numbers fifty, seventy and ninety are derived by adding krí ‘ten’ to the numbers forty, sixty and eighty. This is further compounded using the conjunction nɛ́ ‘and’. làfà, meaning ‘hundred’ in Dompo, is introduced in the counting system.

Basic tones in Dompoː The basic contrastive level tones in Dompo are represented by the tonal markers (ˊ) for high tone and (ˋ) for low tone. Generally, there are more syllables with low tone in Dompo than high tones. The rising and falling contour tones, which are not common in the tonal system of the language. Tones on monosyllabic words can either be high (H) or low (L).

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