Language name and locationː  Huave San Francisco del Mar, Oaxaca state, Mexico

[Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 圣弗朗西斯科海滨瓦维语, 墨西哥南部瓦哈卡州胡奇坦地区

1. ɑnek

2. ɑhkjɑw

3. ɑɾuh

4. ɑpokjuɸ

5. ɑkokjɑɸ

6. ɑnɑhojuɸ

7. ɑhɑjuɸ

8. anojuɸ

9. ɑpekɑf

10. ɑkɑpɑf

11. used Spanish numerals

20. ɲimjow

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Yuni Kim, Department of Linguistics, Universality of California at Berkeley, USA.  2 January, 2008.

提供资料的语言学家: Dr Yuni Kim, 2008 年 1 月 3 日.

Other comments: Huave San Francisco del Mar or Ombeyajts, Huave del Este is spoken by approximately 620 speakers in Oaxaca state: Juchitán district, old and new San Francisco del Mar; southeast coast, Mexico. Huave San Francisco del Mar has several sets of numerals for counting different types of objects, though distinct numeral classes only go up through ‘2’ or ‘3’. Only very few speakers know Huave words for numerals past ‘4’; Spanish numerals are widely used, and there is no separate Huave set of ordinals. The words for 1-3 in the five numeral classes are shown below. The A group is used to count people, animals with four legs, and some objects. The B group is a default, used for most objects, birds, and abstract things like days. The C group is used for long, thin objects such as hammocks, snakes, and sticks. The D group is the sequence that is used to count years, e.g. anom ?iat ‘one year’. Lastly, the E group is used with the Spanish loan vuelt to count how many times something has happened, e.g. ajmbaw vuelt ‘two times’. (Another Spanish loan for counting ‘how many times’, viaje, takes the numbers of the B group.) In all the series except D (which is a hybrid of B and E), the number ‘two’ is formed with aj- + the final consonant of the same series’s word for ‘one’ + a suffix -Vw (which shows up in multiple places elsewhere in the language as a plural marker (e.g. in the determiner ka-w), and may also be considered as such here). For series E, it is relevant to note that prenasalized stops reduce to nasals word-finally, so the m/mb alternation, being phonologically regular, is consistent with this generalization.

Basic numerals

The rest of the numerals through 10 are: apokiuf (4), akokiaf (5), anajoyuf (6), ajayuf (7), anoyuf (8), apekaf (9), and akapaf (10). These words all end in -Vf,  a plural suffix (identical to the third-person plural). One speaker remembers a word for ‘20’, ñimiow. It may be noted that the original Huave numeral system, to judge from San Mateo del Mar (Stairs and Hollenbach 1981:398), was base-20. Stress: Fixed on final syllable.

San Francisco del Mar Huave ( Plain consonant inventory )

San Francisco del Mar Huave ( Vowel inventory )