Language name and location: Gusilay, Ziguinchor, Senegal [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 古斯莱语, 塞内加尔西南部济金绍尔地区

1. janɷr   ɷ = ʊ

21.  əvːi nɪ janɷr

2. suuβa

22.  əvːi nɪ suuβa

3. sifːəɟi

23.  əvːi nɪ sifːəɟi

4. sɪbːaɣɪr

24.  əvːi nɪ sɪbːaɣɪr

5. fɷtɔx

25.  əvːi nɪ fɷtɔx

6. fɷtɔx nɪ janɷr   (5+1)

26.  əvːi nɪ fɷtɔx nɪ janɷr

7. fɷtɔx nɪ suuβa   (5+2)

27.  əvːi nɪ fɷtɔx nɪ suuβa

8. fɷtɔx nɪ sifːəɟi    (5+3)

28.  əvːi nɪ fɷtɔx nɪ sifːəɟi

9. fɷtɔx nɪ sɪbːaɣɪr (5+4)

29.  əvːi nɪ fɷtɔx nɪ sɪbːaɣɪr

10. ɡɷɲɛn  (litː ''hands'' )

30.  əvːi nɪ ɡɷɲɛn (20+10)

11. ɡɷɲɛn nɪ janɷr

40.  uvːi ɡuuβa  (20 x 2)

12. ɡɷɲɛn nɪ suuβa

50.  uvːi ɡuuβa nɪ ɡɷɲɛn

13. ɡɷɲɛn nɪ sifːəɟi

60.  uvːi ɡufːəɟi  (20 x 3)

14. ɡɷɲɛn nɪ sɪbːaɣɪr

70.  uvːi ɡufːəɟi nɪ ɡɷɲɛn

15. ɡaat  ( litː ''foot'' )

80.  uvːi ɡuβːaɣir (20 x 4)

16. ɡaat nɪ janɷr

90.  uvːi ɡuβːaɣir nɪ ɡɷɲɛn

17. ɡaat nɪ suuβa

100. etemel (also ɛkːɛmɛ *)

18. ɡaat nɪ sifːəɟi 

200. sitemel suuβa ( also sɪkːɛmɛ suuβa )

19. ɡaat nɪ sɪbːaɣɪr

1000. euli  (<Mandinka / Pulaar /jóola ? )

20. əvːi *

2000. suuli suuβa

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Serge Sagna, ELDP-Postdoctoral Researcher Fellow, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures. The University of Manchester.

Oxford, United Kingdom. March 13, 2008. August 23, 2009.

提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Serge Sagna, 2008 年 3 月 13 日. 2009 年 8 月 23 日.

Other comments: Gusilay is spoken by approximately 21,000 speakers in Tionk Essil village, between Tendouck and Mlomp-North, Ziguinchor region, Senegal. Gusilay or Gújjolaay Eegimaa has a quinary-vigesimal system with a single word for 15.  The words ɡuɲɛn means ''hands'', ɡaat means ''foot'' and it is not clear whether the use of the item əvːi for 'king' and 'twenty' is a simple case of homonymy or is a metaphorically motivated. In the previous version I put a hyphen between prefixes and roots to distinguish them. Since this precision does not seem to be important for your presentation, I have taken it out. 

Borrowing:

etemel ‘100’ could be a loan from Wolof (tɛːmɛːr cf. your section in Wolof) thus, coming from money counting. It could also be a common root since the languages are related i.e. they are all Atlantic. Historical evidence is required to give a definite answer to this.

ekkeme ‘100’ is definitely a recent loan from Mandinka but through Jóola Fónyi following the Islamization of the Jóola Fonyi. The vast majority of native speakers, including myself, have been taught to say and do say etemel ‘100’. ekkeme ‘100’ is more often used by Muslims for whom Mandinka has a lot of prestige. How integrated it is in the language can be a matter of debate. fɷtɔx ‘five’ is not related to ‘to be sufficient’ which is ɛttɔx as argued in the Bandial data. The second root has a geminate consonant. So here we have a minimal pair between tɔx ‘five’ and ttɔx ‘to be sufficient’. For euli ‘1000’, I can see in your data that the root is shared with a couple of related languages. It could be a loanword from Mandinka/ Pulaar. But it

could also be a shared root. Since the contact of the Eegimaa people with the latter was extremely restricted throughout History, nothing definite can be said unless historical linguistics analysis is carried out.