Language name and location: Furu, Central African Republic [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 富鲁语 (巴吉罗语Bagiro), 中非共和国及刚果民主共和国

1. kàlà

21. 

2. zó

22. 

3. mùtuá

23. 

4. sɔ́

24. 

5. mí

25. 

6. mí.ɲàlā.kàlà  {five.add.one}

26. 

7. sísì.mùtuá/sí.mùtuá/ sìnī.mùtuá.sìnī.sɔ́

27. 

8. nɡbèɗē

28. 

9. tsínì.sɔ́ sî.sɔ́ ~ ɡūmbáyā *

29. 

10. bàlé  bǎ  < Ngbandi or Sango ?

30.  

11.

40. 

12. bàlé.ná.kálà.zɔ̀.ná.zó

50. 

13.

60. 

14.

70. 

15.

80.  

16.

90. 

17.

100. nɡbànɡbò < Ngbandi or Sango ?

18.

200.

19.

1000.

20. bàlé.ná.zó {ten.DEFINITE.two}

2000.

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Pascal Boyeldieu, CNRS-LLACAN (The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research), Paris, France, taken from Field data, November 21, 2013.

提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Pascal Boyeldieu, 2013 年 11 月 21 日.

Other comments: Furu is not an alternate name for Fer (nor for Kresh as sometimes mentioned). Furu is the name of a group living in D.R.C., south of the Oubangui river. Their language is apparently quite close (a dialectal variant ?) to that of the Bagiro, living not far from them, on the other side of the Oubangui, i.e. in C.A.R. Indeed the Bagiro claim to be an offshot of the Furu group, that they probably left some 200 years ago. Furu-Bagiro is clearly another member of Bongo-Bagirmi, more specifically belonging to "Sara proper". (The own name of Bagiro is Gbaya, which is also the name of a Kresh section, hence the frequent but erroneous identification of Furu-Bagiro with Kresh). Bagiro and Fer might be two distinct languages. Nowadays numbers from five to nine have been replaced by Arabic numerals, they might use Arabic numeral system more often now. N.B.ː ȁ/ à / ā / á = extra-L / L / M/ H tone.