Hozo

Language name and locationː Hozo, Oromia region, Ethiopia [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 霍卓语, 埃塞俄比亚中南部奥罗米亚州

1. ʔónnà	21. móʔónnàkʼé ʔottá ʔónnà
2. dòmbó	22. móʔónnàkʼé ʔottá dòmbó
3. sìjázì	23. móʔónnàkʼé ʔottá sìjázì
4. bétsʼì	24. móʔónnàkʼé ʔottá bétsʼì
5. kwítsʼì ( lit: 'hand')	25. móʔónnàkʼé ʔottá kwítsʼì
6. kwítsʼì ʔòttá ʔónnà ( 5 + 1 )	26. móʔónnàkʼé ʔottá kwítsʼì ʔòttá ʔónnà
7. kwítsʼì ʔòttá dòmbó ( 5 + 2 )	27. móʔónnàkʼé ʔottá kwítsʼì ʔòttá dòmbó
8. kwítsʼì ʔòttá sìjázì ( 5 + 3 )	28. móʔónnàkʼé ʔottá kwítsʼì ʔòttá sìjázì
9. kwítsʼì ʔòttá bétsʼì ( 5 + 4 )	29. móʔónnàkʼé ʔottá kwítsʼì ʔòttá bétsʼì
10. pʼóʃì	30. móʔónnàkʼé ʔottá pʼóʃì
11. pʼóʃì dä̀ká ʔónnà	40. módòmbókʼé ( 2 x 20 )
12. pʼóʃì dä̀ká dòmbó	50. módòmbókʼé ʔottá pʼóʃì
13. pʼóʃì dä̀ká sìjázì	60. mósìjázìkʼé ( 3 x 20 )
14. pʼóʃì dä̀ká bétsʼì	70. mósìjázìkʼé ʔottá pʼóʃì
15. pʼóʃì dä̀ká kʼwítsì	80. móbétsʼìkʼé ( 4 x 20 )
16. pʼóʃì dä̀ká kʼwítsì ʔòttá ʔónnà	90. móbétsʼìkʼe ʔottá pʼóʃì
17. pʼóʃì dä̀ká kʼwítsì ʔòttá dòmbó	100. mókwítsʼikʼé ( 5 x 20 )
18. pʼóʃì dä̀ká kʼwítsì ʔòttá sìjázì	200. mópʼóʃìkʼé ( 10 x 20 ) *
19. pʼóʃì dä̀ká kʼwítsì ʔòttá bétsʼì	1000. ʔónnà ʔùwwá sìjázì *
20. móʔónnàkʼé (litː 'kʼe = 'body')	2000.

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Getachew Kassa Bahiru, Department of General Linguistics at Addis Ababa University and lecturer at Samara University, Ethiopia.

October 23, 2012.

提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Getachew Kassa Bahiru, 2012 年 10 月 23 日.

Other comments: Hozo is an Omotic language spoken roughly by 3,000 speaker mostly in the Kondala woreda of Mirab Welega Zone (Western Oromia) by peoples generically known as "Mao". There are smaller groups of Hozo speakers in Mana Sibu woreda.

The word Mao is Omotic and means ‘man; people’, and there is a kind of Mao identity across language differences in Ethiopia. While it is generally accepted today that Omotic is one of the primary branches of the Afro-Asiatic family, the position of the four languages Hozo, Seze, Ganza and Northern Mao is still being discussed. The Mao languages are the least documented within Omotic.

Hozo has a vigesimal system of counting with a base five.
1. ʔòttá 'and, remain’ is used to count from six to nine and to add the numbers of
fingers.

2. dä̀ká 'foot' is used to count from eleven to fifteen and to add the number of toes.

3. Both dä̀ká and ʔòttá are used to count from sixteen to nineteen.

4. k'e 'body' is used to mean twenty which refers to the sum of fingers and toes of a

person.

5. The young [literate] people are not very much aware of the numerals. They switch

to Oromifa. Surprisingly, to count the hundreds they start using a short mechanism

by using one and zero as follows:

ʔónná ʔùwwá dòmbó one hundred [ lit. one and two zeros]

dòmbó ʔùwwá dòmbó two hundred [litː two and two zeros]

ʔónná ʔùwwá sìjázì one thousand

ʔónná ʔùwwá bétsʼi ten thousand

ʔónná ʔùwwá kwítsʼi one hundred thousand

ʔónná ʔùwwá kwítsʼi ʔòttá ʔónnà one million etc..

Language name and locationː Hozo, Oromia region, Ethiopia [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 霍卓语, 埃塞俄比亚中南部奥罗米亚州

1. ʊnːa *** / onna	21.
2. dʊmbo / dombo	22.
3. sìɑːsi /siyazi	23.
4. bɛtsíː / betsʼi	24.
5. kʷɪtsí / kʼwitsi ( lit: 'hand', kutsi )	25.
6. kɛniː / ota-onna ( 5 + 1 )	26.
7. ʔɔːta / ota-dombo ( 5 + 2 )	27.
8. ʔɔ̀ːtá / ota-siyazi ( 5 + 3 )	28.
9. ʔɔ̀ːtì / ota-beːtsi ( 5 + 4 )	29.
10. pʼɔ́ːʃi / poːši	30. onna-mo-kʼwɛ-ɛb-poši
11. poːši-ota-onna	40. dombo mo-kʼwɛ ( 2 x 20 )
12. poːši-ota-dombo	50.
13. poːši-ota-siyazi	60.
14. poːši-ota-betsʼi	70.
15. poːši-ota-kʼwitsi	80.
16.	90.
17.	100. kʼwitsi-mo-kʼwɛ ( 5 x 20 )
18.	200.
19.	1000.
20. onna-mo-kʼwɛ	2000.

Linguist providing data and dateː Prof. Marvin L. Bender, Southern Illinois University, USA, June 2, 1989.

Additional dataː Wedekind, Charlotte, Klaus Wedekind and Ralph Siebert. 2002.

"Third S.L.L.E. survey on languages of the Begi/Asosa area." SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2002-056.

提供资料的语言学家: Prof. Marvin L. Bender. 1989 年 6 月 2 日.

Other comments: Hozo has a vigesimal system with a five-bas substructure. The first set of 'one to ten' on the above table was taken from SIL survey. There are missing terms for the compound numerals and tens. Nowadays, they might use Amharic numerals for after ten.

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