Kupsabiiny / Sebei

Language name and locationː Kupsabiiny, Bukwa district, Uganda [Ref to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 库普萨比尼语 (塞贝语 Sebei), 乌干达东部及肯尼亚接壤地区

1. aɡeenɡe [akɛ́ːŋkɛ]	21. kuwäängʼ chiichak äk aɡeenɡe
2. äyëëny [ɑréːɲ]	22. kuwäängʼ chiichak äk äyëëny
3. sömök [sómok]	23. kuwäängʼ chiichak äk sömök
4. anɡʼwan [aŋwán]	24. kuwäängʼ chiichak äk anɡʼwan
5. müüt [múːt]	25. kuwäängʼ chiichak äk müüt
6. müüt äk aɡeenɡe [múːt ɑk akɛ́ːŋkɛ]	26. kuwäängʼ chiichak äk müüt äk aɡeenɡe
7. müüt äk äyëëny (5+2)	27. kuwäängʼ chiichak äk müüt äk äyëëny
8. müüt äk sömök (5+3 )	28. kuwäängʼ chiichak äk müüt äk sömök
9. müüt äk anɡʼwan (5+4)	29. kuwäängʼ chiichak äk müüt äk anɡʼwan
10. taman [támán]	30. kuwäängʼ chiichak äk taman
11. taman äk aɡeenɡe	40. kuwäängʼ biikä äyëëny ('two persons')
12. taman äk äyëëny	50. kuwäängʼ biikä äyëëny äk taman
13. taman äk sömök	60. tämänwääɡïk müüt äk aɡeenɡe
14. taman äk anɡʼwan	70. tämänwääɡïk müüt äk äyëëny
15. taman äk müüt	80. tämänwääɡïk müüt äk sömök
16. taman äk müüt äk aɡeenɡe	90. tämänwääɡïk müüt äk anɡʼwan
17. taman äk müüt äk äyëëny	100. bäɡäl [bɑɡɑl]
18. taman äk müüt äk sömök	200. bäɡäl äyëëny
19. taman äk müüt äk anɡʼwan
20. kuwäängʼ chiichak ('one person')

Linguist providing data and dateː Mr. Iver Larsen, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Kenya, December 16, 1998

提供资料的语言学家: Mr. Iver Larsen, 1998 年 12 月 16 日.

Other comments: Kupsabiiny or Sebei is spoken by approximately 270,000 speakers in

Bukwa, Kapchorwa, and Kween districts; some in Amudat and Nakapiripirit districts; Kenya border area, Uganda. Sebei has a five-based system. They seem to have borrowed the general Nilotic word for 10 (taman), but for 20 they say 'kuwäängʼ chiichak', which means 'one person finished' and 40 they say 'kuwäängʼ biikä äyëëny ('two persons finished'). For Sebei the number sixty used to be the highest possible numbers. The numbers beyond 50 seem to be loans from nearby language.

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