Language name and locationː Forest Enets, Krasnoyarsk, Russia [Refer to Ethnologue]
语言名称和分布地区: 森林埃涅茨语, 俄罗斯联邦西伯利亚中部克拉斯诺亚尔斯克边疆区

1. ŋolʲu ~ ŋo

21.  ʃiðuː ŋolʲu

2. ʃiði    

22.  ʃiðuː ʃiði

3. nɛxuʔ   

23.  ʃiðuː nɛxuʔ

4. tɛt 

24.  ʃiðuː tɛt

5. sob(i)riɡ

25.  ʃiðuː sob(i)riɡ

6. motu(ʔ)

26.  ʃiðuː motuʔ

7. sɛu ~ sɛʔu

27.  ʃiðuː sɛu

8. ʃiðiʔɛt (etym 4 x 2) *

28.  ʃiðuː ʃiðiʔɛt

9. nɛda

29.  ʃiðuː nɛda

10. biʔ

30.  nɛxubiʔ

11. bikuð ŋolʲu boðad  **

40.  tɛtbiʔ

12. bikuð ʃiði boðad 

50.  sobriɡbiʔ

13. bikuð nɛxuʔ boðad  

60.  motabi̯ʔ

14. bikuð tɛt boðad 

70.  sɛubi̯ʔ

15. bikuð sob(i)riɡ boðad   

80.  ʃiðɛtbi̯ʔ

16. bikuð motu(ʔ) boðad 

90.  nɛðabiʔ

17. bikuð sɛu boðad

100. dʲuʔ ~ ŋolʲu dʲuʔ

18. bikuð ʃiðiʔɛt boðad   

200. ʃiði dʲuʔ

19. bikuð nɛda boðad 

1000. jonar juʔ ~ tɨsʲtʃɘ  (From Russian)

20. ʃiðuː

2000. ʃiði juʔ 

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Florian Siegl, University of Helsinki, Finland.
April 13, 2012.
提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Florian Siegl, 2012 年 4 月 13 日.

Other comments: Forest Enets is an endangered language. The numeral system of contemporary Forest Enets is basically decimal although relicts point to a different system in the past. For example 'eight' šiđiät seems to be a fossilized compound of šiđi tät 'two four'. šiđu ‘twenty’ seems to be synchronically unsegmentable, too. Numerals do not show number morphology (no dual or plural) and apparently cannot be used with PX either. Numerals, too, take only some derivational morphology. A variety of observations concerning the phonetic representation of numerals could be made. First, the glottal stops with ‘three’ and ‘six’ are no longer audible. By adding the limitative -ru, assimilation to -lu occurs which shows that both numerals are underlyingly still glottal stop stems. Whether these numerals belong to class IIa or IIb could no longer be determined. Second, the phonetic shape of several numerals differs from speaker to speaker; instead of ŋol'u also ŋul'u ‘one’ and sobrig instead of sobirig ‘five’ occurs frequently. ANP pronounces motu(ʔ) generally as mutu and occasionally, instead of säu the historically older säʔu is infrequently attested. Also the glottal stop in biʔ 'ten’ is sometimes omitted and once a while biuʔ matching older accounts could be heard too.
   Numerals from 11-19 are morphologically complex and could be eventually interpreted as clauses. The last element bođad, a stative intransitive verb meaning ‘is more’ is apparently a defective stative verb which requires its first teen in the ablative, followed by a cardinal number. The numerals ‘eleven’ and ‘twelve’ translate as follows:    bi-kuđ  ŋol'u  bođad
   ten-ABL.SG one be.more.3SG
   ‘From ten one is more = 11’, from 10 1 is more
   bi-kuđ  šiđi bođad
   ten-ABL.SG  two be.more.3SG. ‘From ten two are more = 12’
   In spontaneous speech, such clauses are often simplified:
   ŋol'u bođad 
   one be.more.3SG
   ‘One is more = 11’
   The numerals 13-19 are formed on the same principles.The numeral ‘twenty’ differs from the rest as it is not a compound of the highest power of ten followed by ten and cardinals which is the pattern for numerals from 30-99. Instead, an invariable šiđu ~ šiđuu ~ šiđiu ‘twenty’, which is then followed by cardinals, is used: Higher numbers from 30 to 99 are compounds whose second component is the numeral biʔ ‘ten’. d'uʔ meaning ‘hundred’ is used following then same pattern as for figures with ten. The glottal stop is often omitted: ďuʔ ~ ŋol'u ďuʔ 100, šiđi ďu 200, näxu ďu 300             The native Forest Enets system seems to end with 999. Whereas the numeral ‘thousand’ is known, there is considerable variation among the speakers. Speakers who were born in monolingual Forest Enets marriages use the Tundra Nenets lexeme for ‘thousand’ jonar ju. In contrast, speakers raised in bilingual Forest Enets Nenets families prefer the Russian тысяча. Still, in spontaneous speech numerals exceeding thousand are always uttered in Russian preserving the syntactic peculiarities of Russian numeral agreement:
Note that traditional Uralic phonetic symbolsː
1. š = IPA [ʃ];  = IPA [ð]; ä = IPA [ɛ].