Language name and location: Mbula-Bwazaa, Adamawa, Nigeria [Refer to Ethnologue]

言名称和分布地区姆布拉-布扎语, 尼日利亚东部阿达马瓦州

 

1. mon / mwashat

21.  lumi rap kasa muri mwashat

2. rap

22.  lumi rap kasa muri rap

3. taru

23.  lumi rap kasa muri taru

4. ine

24.  lumi rap kasa muri ine

5. tonɡno

25.  lumi rap kasa muri tonɡno

6. tonɡno war mwashat ( 5+1 )

26.  lumi rap kasa muri t. war mwashat

7. tonɡno war rap  ( 5+2 )

27.  lumi rap kasa muri tonɡno war rap

8. tonɡno war taru ( 5+3 )

28.  lumi rap kasa muri tonɡno war taru

9. tonɡno war ine  ( 5+4 )

29.  lumi rap kasa muri  tonɡno war ine

10. lum

30.  a mon

11. lum war mwashat

40.  lumi ine  ( 10 x 4 )

12. lum war rap

50.  lumi tonɡno  ( 10 x 5 )

13. lum war taru

60.  a rap  ( 30 x 2 )

14. lum war ine

70.  a rap nonɡ lumi ( 30 x 2+10)

15. lum war tonɡno

80.  a rap nonɡ lumi rap (30 x 2+ 20)

16. lum war tonɡno war mwashat

90.  a taru  ( 30 x 3 )

17. lum war tonɡno war rap

100. luru

18. lum war tonɡno war taru

200. 

19. lum war tonɡno war ine

1000.  ɓim nə nkiwi

20. lumi rap

2000. 

 

Linguists providing data and dateː Mr. & Mrs. Wolf and Hildegard Seiler, SIL-International, April 28, 2008.

供资料的语言学家: Mr. & Mrs. Wolf and Hildegard Seiler, 2008 年 4 月 28 日.

 

Other comments: Mbula-Bwazaa is spoken by approximately 100,000 speakers in
Adamawa state: Demsa, Girei, Numan, Shelleng, and Song LGAs, Nigeria.

Mbula-Bwazaa seems use a rare known counting system based on thirty: mon=1, a mon=30 (1 times 30); rap=2; a rap= 60 (2 times 30);  taru=3, a taru=90 (3 times 30). Makes me curious how the sequence goes. further studies are needed to verify the "big numbers." The people have difficulties producing these big numbers because they are hardly using them. English (or Hausa) is much easier and more direct. Mbula-Bwazaa is tonal language. Updated data in phonemic or phonetic transcriptions with tones needed.


 

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