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Language name and locationː Fulniô (Iatê), Brazil [Refer to Ethnologue]
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1. fátʰòwā |
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2. tkánò |
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3. lìʃínò * |
| 4. satutkánò ( literallyː 'two plural') |
| 5. kʰòyáftoa ( litː 'one hand' ) or sinkono ( Portuguese loanword ) |
| 6. kʰòyáftoa tʰak fátʰòwā or sezeno ( Portuguese loanword ) * |
| 7. kʰòyáftoa tʰak tkánò or saetino ( Portuguese loanword ) |
| 8. kʰòyáftoa tʰak lìʃínò or oytono ( Portuguese loanword ) |
| 9. kʰòyáftoa tʰak satutkánò or novino ( Portuguese loanword ) |
| 10. kʰòyátkánò ( litː 'two hands' ) or daezono ( Portuguese loanword ) |
| 11. daezeno, 12. dozeno, 13.trezeno, 14.kwatorzeno, 15.kinzino, 16.dezaesezeno, |
| 17. dezaesaetino, 18.dezoytono, 19.dezaenovino, 20.vintino, 30.trintano, |
| 40. kwarentano, 50. sinkwentano, 60.saesentano, 80.oytentano, 90.novaetano. |
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Linguist providing data and dateː Mr. Douglas Meland. SIL International, July 22, 2010. 提供资料的语言学家: Mr. Douglas Meland, 2010 年 7 月 22 日. |
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Other comments: Fulniô or Iatê has words for numbers from one to up ten, but now they only has words for numbers from one to five. After five all the numbers used are loan words from Portuguese. Fulniô is a tonal language. Note that the numbers 6 through 9 are now used today and they are obvious in their meaningː 6 = one hand plus a, 9= one hand plus 4. As to tone, there are 5 or more phonetic tones, but only 2 are phonemic; high and low. Primary stress causes the highs to go higher and the lows to go lower than other syllables. Each succeeding high tone in a series goes higher than the preceding tone, resulting in a climbing tone pattern. Lows also tend to drop in a series. Vowels following primary stress tend to rise or fall slightly in tone since they are phonetically less extreme in their tone range than stressed syllables. ʃ = x in orthography. |
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