Saxwe-Gbe

Language name and location: Saxwe-Gbe, Atlantique, Benin [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 萨赫维-格贝语, 贝宁共和国大西洋省, 库福省和莫诺省

1. ɑ̀ɖé ~ ɖók͡pó	21. kōnũ̀kṹɖók͡pó
2. òwê	22. kōnũ̀kṹwê
3. ɑ̀tɔ̃̂	23. kōnũ̀kwɑ̃́tɔ̂
4. ɛ̀nɛ̃̂	24. kōnũ̀kwɛ̃́nɛ̂
5. ɑ̀tṹ	25. kwɑ̄tú
6. ɑ̀dɛ̃́	26. kwɑ̄tṹnũ̀kṹɖók͡pó
7. ɑ̀tʃówê (5+2)	27. kwɑ̄tṹnũ̀kṹwê
8. ɑ̀tɾótɔ̃̂ (5+3)	28. kwɑ̄tṹnũ̀kwɑ́tɔ̃̂
9. ɑ̀tʃɛ̃́nɛ̃̂ (5+5)	29. kwɑ̄tṹnũ̀kwɛ̃́nɛ̂
10. òwō	30. òɡ͡bɑ̃̀
11. wéɖók͡pó	40. kɑ̃̀ɖé
12. wévê	50. kɑ̃̀ɖéwō (40+10)
13. wétɔ̃̂	60. kɑ̃̀ɖékō (40+20)
14. wɛ́nɛ̃̂	70. kɑ̃̀ɖéɡ͡bɑ̃̂ (40+30)
15. fɔ̀tɔ̃̂	80. kɑ̃̀wê (40 x 2) ?
16. fɔ̀tɔ̃̂nũ̀kṹɖok͡pó (15+1)	90. kɑ̃̀wèòwó (80+10)
17. fɔ̀tɔ̃̂nũ̀kṹwê (15+2)	100. kɑ̃̀wèkò (80+20)
18. fɔ̀tɔ̃̂nũ̀kwɑ̃́tɔ̃̂ (15+3)	200. fɔ̀ɖé
19. fɔ̀tɔ̃̂nũ̀kwɛ̃́nɛ̃̂ (15+4)	1000. kótókṹ ɖók͡pó
20. ōkō	2000. kótókṹ òwê

Linguist providing data and dateː Mr. Josh Ham, SIL International, Togo-Benin, July 2, 2009.

提供资料的语言学家: Mr. Josh Ham. 2009 年 7 月 2 日.

Other comments: Saxwe-Gbe has a rather complicated numeral system similar to that of Fon-Gbe. Saxwe-Gbe is spoken by approximately 320,000 speakers in Atlantique department: Kpomasse commune; Coufou department: Lalo commune; Mono department: Bopa and Houéyogbé communes, Benin.

Here at long last are the Saxwe numeral data. A few notes:

1) Please disregard the yellow highlighting. For some reason, Word did not allow me
     to type a consonant followed by ṹ. When I tried to do that, it transformed the ṹ into
     a copy of the preceding consonant. In other words, when I typed "kōnũ̀kṹwê" it
     gave me "kōnũ̀kkwê". I don't know why it did this; I've never seen anything like it
     before. When I highlighted some letters, I obtained the correct form. So the
     highlighting isn't there to signal anything, just to ensure that the proper form shows.

2) For the number 1, there are two forms. When counting in the abstract, you use ɑ̀ɖé.
So "one, two, three, four..." would be ɑ̀ɖé, òwê, ɑ̀tɔ̃̂, ɛ̀nɛ̃̂... But if you want to count
actual items, for instance "one car" or "one mango", you'd use ɖókpó.

3) I can give you morpheme-by-morpheme breakdowns of the longer numbers if you
want. For example, 27 is "20 5 and 2".

4) I'm not sure that there's a good word for 1000. Traditional counting doesn't go that
high. It took my language assistant a while to come up with kótókṹ, so that may not
be a very authentic Saxwe word. I don't know.

5) I'm just at the beginning of my language learning, so these transcriptions may not be
perfect!

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