Pech / Paya

Language name and locationː Pech, Colón department, Honduras [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 佩茨语 (帕雅语 Paya), 洪都拉斯北部加勒比海沿岸科隆省和东南部奥兰乔省

1. ás

2. póːk

3. mã̀yh

4. kàh

5. õ̀kí

6. sèra

7. tàwak

8. òːwa

9. tàs

10. ùkkʷa

11. kʷáras

12. kʷàrapóːk

13. kʷàramã̀yh

14. kʷàrakàh

15. kʷàra(oʔ)õ̀kí

16. kʷàrasèra

17. kʷàratàwak

18. kʷàra(aʔ)òːwa

19. kʷàratàs

20. kʷàrahúkkʷa

40. kʷàra-pé-kàh

100. kʷàra-pé-ùkkwa

Linguist providing data and dateː Prof. Dennis Holt, Foreign Language Department, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, April 28, 1994, March 13, 2020.

提供资料的语言学家: Prof. Dennis Holt, 1994 年 4 月 28 日, 2020 年 3 月 13 日.

Other comments: Pech or Paya, Pesh is a moribund language spoken by approximately 300 speakers out of 6,000 ethnic population in Colón department: near Caribbean coast; Olancho department: Dulce Nombre de Culmi and Catamacas municipalities, Honduras. Pech has a vigesimal system. Higher decades cardinals are formed through a multiplicative process employing the morpheme -pé- 'times' (which may be related to the adjective particle péː 'much, many'); e.g. kʷàra-pé-kàh '10 x 4'='40'; kʷàra-pé-ùkkwa '10 x 10' = '100', etc. Pech is a tonal and please note that the v̀ indicates low tone and v́ high tone.

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