Iatê / Fulniô

Language name and locationː Iatê, Pernambuco state, Brazil [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 雅特语 (富尔尼奥语 Fulniô), 巴西东北部伯南布科州塞尔唐区阿瓜斯贝拉斯镇两个村落

1. fátʰòwā

2. tkánò

3. lìʃínò *

4. satutkánò ( literallyː 'two plural')

5. kʰòyáftoa ( litː 'one hand' ) or sinkono ( Portuguese loanword )

6. kʰòyáftoa tʰak fátʰòwā or sezeno ( Portuguese loanword ) *

7. kʰòyáftoa tʰak tkánò or saetino ( Portuguese loanword )

8. kʰòyáftoa tʰak lìʃínò or oytono ( Portuguese loanword )

9. kʰòyáftoa tʰak satutkánò or novino ( Portuguese loanword )

10. kʰòyátkánò ( litː 'two hands' ) or daezono ( Portuguese loanword )

11. daezeno, 12. dozeno, 13.trezeno, 14.kwatorzeno, 15.kinzino, 16.dezaesezeno,

17. dezaesaetino, 18.dezoytono, 19.dezaenovino, 20.vintino, 30.trintano,

40. kwarentano, 50. sinkwentano, 60.saesentano, 80.oytentano, 90.novaetano.

Linguist providing data and dateː Mr. Douglas Meland. SIL International, July 22, 2010.

提供资料的语言学家: Mr. Douglas Meland, 2010 年 7 月 22 日.

Other comments: Iatê or Fulniô is spoken by approxiametly 1,000 speakers out of 2,900 ethnic population in 2 villages, Águas Belas municipality, Sertão, Pernambuco State and Alagoas state, Brazil.

Iatê or Fulniô has words for numbers from one to up ten, but now they only has words for numbers from one to five. After five all the numbers used are loan words from Portuguese. Fulniô is a tonal language. Note that the numbers 6 through 9 are now used today and they are obvious in their meaningː 6 = one hand plus a, 9= one hand plus 4. As to tone, there are 5 or more phonetic tones, but only 2 are phonemic; high and low. Primary stress causes the highs to go higher and the lows to go lower than other syllables. Each succeeding high tone in a series goes higher than the preceding tone, resulting in a climbing tone pattern. Lows also tend to drop in a series. Vowels following primary stress tend to rise or fall slightly in tone since they are phonetically less extreme in their tone range than stressed syllables. ʃ = x in orthography.

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