Language name and locationː Sawknah, Al Jufrah district, Libya [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 索克纳语, 利比亚中部朱夫拉省索克纳镇

1. íɡ̌ɡ̌en (masc.); íɡ̌ɡ̌et (fem.)

21. 

2. se̩n (masc.); sénnĕt (fem.)

22.  

3. šâret 

23.  

4.

24.  

5.

25.

6.

26.  

7.

27.  

8.

28.  

9.

29. 

10. ifé̤ssen

30.  yūr

11.

40. 

12. se̩n ifé̤ssen de se̩n id̩ûd̩ān

50. 

13.  

60. 

14. 

70.  

15.

80.  

16. 

90.  

17.  se̩n ifé̤ssen de se̩n id̩ûd̩ān 

100. sénnet tmîtīn

18.

200. 

19.  ifé̤ssen ette̤˥skân ġê̤r de dâd̩ 

1000. 

20. 

2000.

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Marijn van Putten, Center for Linguistics, Leiden University, Netherlands, January 19, 2014.
提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Marijn van Putten, 2014 年 1 月 19 日.

Other comments: Sawknah or Sokna is almost extinct. But in 2010 a wordlist by a clearly non-fluent speaker showed up on the internet.

Taken from the one, and only good source of the language.

Sarnelli, C. D. Tommasso. 1924. “Il dialetto berbero di Sokna: Materiali lessicali, testi manoscritti in caratteri arabi, con trascriozione e traduzione.” Supplement to “Africa Italiana”.

Transcriptions cannot be give in IPA as the language is extinct and there are no recordings. The transcriptions of Sarnelli are kept.

At the time, it was customary for Italian scholars to leave out Arabic loanwords in their Berber wordlists. The gap of 4-9 almost certainly indicates that those numerals were Arabic. The reason why 10,12,17,19 and 30 are attested, is because Sarnelli was able to elicit the cryptic numerals, which intentionally avoid Arabic numerals so Berber speakers can talk about prices on the marketplace without being understood. Similar cryptic numeral systems are found in el-Foqaha Siwa and probably Awjila.

10 translates to ‘hands’

12 translates to ‘two hands and two fingers’ 

17 translates to ‘three hands and two of fingers’

19 translates to ‘hands and feet without finger’

30 translate to ‘month’.

Surprisingly ‘two hundred’ is in Sarnelli’s wordlist, which has the archaic Berber word for ‘hundred’ in the plural, but ‘one hundred’ is unattested, which probably means his informant gave him the Arabic numeral.

Sawkna or Sokna is a presumably extinct Eastern Berber language which was spoken in the town of Sokna (Isuknan) and the village of Fuqaha in northeastern Fezzan in Libya.