Language name and locationː Ghadamès, Ghadame, Libya [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 加 达梅斯语, 利比亚西北部纳卢特省古达米斯绿洲地区

1. yón (masc.); yót (fem.)

21. 

2. sən (masc.); sənăt (fem.)

22.  

3. kárăd̩ (masc.); kárd̩ăt (fem.)

23.  

4. aqqoz (masc.); aqqozăt (fem.)

24.  

5. səmməs (masc.); səmməsăt (fem.)

25.

6. s̩uz̩z̩ (masc.); s̩ut̩săt ~ s̩ud̩săt (fem.)

26.  

7. sá (masc.); sát (fem.)

27.  

8. tám (masc.); támăt (fem.)

28.  

9. təs̩ó (masc.); təs̩ót (fem.)

29. 

10. maraw (masc.); maráwăt (fem.)

30.  kárăd̩ m maraw

11. meraou d ioun = maraw əd yón

40. 

12. 

50. 

13.  

60. 

14. 

70.  

15.

80.  

16. 

90.  

17.  

100.

18.

200.  sinnet and mia = sənăt  ənd-miyya

19.

1000. 

20. sən m maraw ~ sən ənd-maraw

2000.

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Marijn van Putten, Center for Linguistics, Leiden University, Netherlands, January 19, 2014.
提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Marijn van Putten, 2014 年 1 月 19 日.

Other comments: There are feminine and masculine forms for numerals from one to ten in Ghadamès. Data comes from Maarten Kossmann (2013) A Grammatical Sketch of Ghadames Berber (Libya). Rüdiger Köppe Verlag: Köln. Transcription of Ghadames has been kept, because we have no recent audio recordings, a representation of IPA would be educated guesses at best. Consonants with a dot below are pharyngealized consonants. Acute accent marks vowel length, which is probably not phonemic, but linked to the position of the stress. But more research is needed to confirm this.

Numerals above 10 are expressed by means of Arabic numerals. In the 1940s older speakers would sometimes use archaic Berber constructions. (they’ve been filled in in the chart below in bold). Some of the numerals are only found in Motylinski (1904), which is a different dialect than the dialect described in Kossmann (2013), and the transcription is difficult to interpret.

A few more numeral are attested which do not fit in the chart, but may be interesting for analysis purposes: 31: kárăḍ ənd-maraw əd yón (three plural-ten and one)

The only attested Arabic numeral in the texts is ərbăɛ miyya ‘four hundred’

Motylinski has a different construction for twenty: sinnet temraouin = sənnăt təmrawen (two (fem.) ten:f.pl.). Motylinski has the word for million: alef and alef= aləf ənd-aləf (1.000 plural-1.000, ergo ‘a thousand thousands’ using the Arabic numeral [ʔælf] ‘1.000’).

Ghadamès is a Berber language that is spoken by approximately 13,000 speakers in, and named after, the oasis town of Ghadames in Nalut District, western Libya.