Language name and locationː Ona, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina [Refer to Ethnologue]

言名称和分布地区奥纳(尔克南 Selk'nam), 阿根廷最南端巴塔哥尼亚地区火地群岛

 

1. 'šoːš or 'soːs                                                      

2. 'šoːk or 'soːk                                     

3. 'šɑːokn or 'sɑːokn                         

4. 'kone 'šoːk                          

5.  'č'enwn or 'šoːš 'č'eˀn (litː 'one hand') or 'kone 'maɾɑˀj ( second informant)            

10. 'šoːk 'č'eˀn or 'šoːk 'č'enwn  (litː 'two hands')                                 

15. šɑːokn 'č'enwn  (litː 'three hands')       

20. 'kone 'šoːk 'č'enˀn  (litː 'four hands')  

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Martine Delahaye, Université René Descartes (University of Paris V), Sorbonne, Paris, France, March 26, 1990.

供资料的语言学家: Dr. Martine Delahaye, 1990 年 3 月 26 日.

 

Other comments: Ona or Selk'nam became extinct when the last speakers died in the 1980s formerly lived in Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur province: Patagonia, Argentina.

Ona or Selk'nam has only three words for numbers. They can use hand to count up to twenty.


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