Kwadi

Language name and location: Kwadi, Namibe province, Angola [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 夸迪语, 安哥拉西南部纳米贝省纳米贝镇

1. ǁwí	21.
2. ǀám	22.
3. dátùa < Bantu	23.
4. né < Bantu	24.
5. tánù < Bantu	25.
6. ǀíᵗɲàu	26.
7. ǀáᵗɲàu	27.
8. sébéþótlt̀extɔpenɔ	28.
9. móyò < Bantu	29.
10. mólà < Bantu	30. datu molo
11. sebelo ǁwí	40. ne molo
12. sebelo ǀám	50. thanu hànáʼí
13. sebelo dátùa	60. molo ǀwíǀŋa nomolo
14. sebelo né	70. mola ǀaǀŋa nomolo
15. sebelo tánù	80. sebelo tʃuba ŋoŋolo
16. sebelo ǀíᵗɲàu	90. namola baɲuŋula
17. sebelo ǀáᵗɲàu	100. hámándì
18. sebelo sébéþótlt̀extɔpenɔ	200.
19. sebelo móyò	1000.
20. ǀá mólô	2000.

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Tom Güldemann, Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, April 4, 2008. Additional data provided by Dr. Harald Hammarström, Chalmers University, Sweden, taken from Ernst Westphal's field notes ( 1965).

提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Tom Güldemann, 2008 年 4 月 4 日.

Other comments: Kwadi or Bakoroka, Cuepe, Curoca, Koroka, Makoroko was an extinct language Last known speakers survived into the late 1970s (Winter 1981), formerly spoken in Namibe province: southwest corner, Coroca river area south of Namibe town, Angola. J. C. Winter (1981) says it is extinct. There were 3 speakers in 1971 who used it regularly (E. O. J. Westphal). Kwadi counting system is a mixture of the quinary and the decimal systems; yet the Kwadi cardinal numbers 1 and 2 have Bushman and Hottentot names respectively, while, other hand, the numbers 3, 4, 5, 9 and 10 have Bantu names.

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