Mambai / Mambay

Language name and location: Mambai, Cameroon, Chad [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 曼贝语, 喀麦隆北部省贝努埃州地区及乍得境内

1. bóm	21. káálà ɓàt sóm bóm
2. ɓàtì	22. káálà ɓàt sóm ɓàtì
3. bìsáʕ	23. káálà ɓàt sóm bìsáʕ
4. bìnã̀ʕ	24. káálà ɓàt sóm bìnã̀ʕ
5. bìzépḛ́	25. káálà ɓàt sóm bìzépḛ́
6. bìɡírò	26. káálà ɓàt sóm bìɡírò
7. tàrnã́ɡà	27. káálà ɓàt sóm tàrnã́ɡà
8. fwàrnã́ɡà / wàr séʕnã́ fàɡ͡bàʕŋ ɓàtì *	28. káálà ɓàt sóm fwàrnã́ɡà
9. sêʕbóm / wàr séʕnã́ fàɡ͡bàʕŋ bóm *	29. káálà ɓàt sóm sêʕbóm
10. zóɗôm / séʕnã́ kíríb	30. káálà bìsáʕ
11. zóɗôm sóm bóm	40. káálà bìnã̀ʕ
12. zóɗôm sóm ɓàtì	50. káálà bìzépḛ́
13. zóɗôm sóm bìsáʕ	60. káálà bìɡírò
14. zóɗôm sóm bìnã̀ʕ	70. káálà tàrnã́ɡà
15. zóɗôm sóm bìzépḛ́	80. káálà fwàrnã́ɡà
16. zóɗôm sóm bìɡírò	90. káálà sêʕbóm
17. zóɗôm sóm tàrnã́ɡà	100. tèèméérè <Fulfulde
18. zóɗôm sóm fwàrnã́ɡà	200. tèèméérè ɓàtì
19. zóɗôm sóm sêʕbóm	1000. ɡàmbù / ʔùzìnéérè < Fulfulde
20. káálà ɓàtì / zóɗôm sóm zóɗôm	2000. ɡàmbu ɓàtì / ʔùzìnéérè ɓàtì

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Erik John Anonby, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Cameroon. June 6, 2007.

提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Erik John Anonby, 2007 年 6 月 6 日.

Other comments: Mambai or Mambay has a decimal system with special constructions for numbers 8 and 9, which are formed by '10 minus 2' and '10 minus 1' respectively. Both number 8 and 9 have three alternative formsː fwàrnã́ɡà / fwàrnã́ʕ /wàr séʕnã́ fàɡ͡bàʕŋ ɓàtì for 8 and sêʕbóm / sêʕbóm / wàr séʕnã́ fàɡ͡bàʕŋ bóm. Twenty can be expressed by 'káálà ɓàtì' or 'zóɗôm sóm zóɗôm' (10+10). Both hundreds and thousands are Fulani loanwords. Mambai or Mambay is spoken by approximately 17,000 speakers in North region: Bénoué division, Bibemi and Pitoa subdivisions; Mayo Louti division, Guider and Figuil subdivisions; all locations along Mayo-Kebi river near Chad border, Cameroon as well as Chad.

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