Language name and locationː Secoya, Ecuador, Peru [Refer to Ethnologue]
言名称和分布地区塞科雅语, 厄瓜多尔东北部苏昆比奥斯省及秘鲁境内

 

1. teʔe, teʔi, teʔo (inanimate, masculine, feminine)

2. kaja

3. toaso

4. kahese(ʔe), kaheseʔi, kaheseʔo (paʔi)  ( inanimate, masculine, feminine )

5. te-hɨtɨ (paʔi)    ( litː ''a hand of X exists'' )

6. ɨha-tupɨ (paʔi) [lit: ''thumb from the other hand (exists)'' ]

7. ɨha-tupɨ seɲã-maka-jo (lit: ''after the thumb'')

8. hopoajo (paʔi) [lit: ''middle finger (exists)'']

9. hopoajo kɨno-make-jo (lit: ''close to middle finger'')

10. sia-hɨ-ɲa (paʔi) [lit: ''all hands (exist)'']

11. siahɨɲa teʔe/teʔi/teʔo

12. siahɨɲa kaja

20. siahɨɲa siahɨɲa

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Rosa Vallejos Yopán, Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon, USA, November 16, 2008.

供资料的语言学家: Dr. Rosa Vallejos Yopán, 2008 年 11 月 16 日.

 

Other comments: Secoya people can count up to twenty with hands. Notes the following pointsː
1. Numbers agree with the entity been counted with respect to gender/ animacy

    (see 1 & 4). However, a few inanimate entities are not overtly marked us such

    (i.e., -Ɂe does not always show up).
2.  Depending on the noun they modify, the numeric expression may require the

     copula paɁi ‘exist’. (see 4, 5…)

3.  Numeric expressions for 7 & 9 are complicated; the glosses for 7 would be
     something like: thumb
after-position-classifier (the CL jo ‘longish’ refers to the

     form of the finger, not to the form of the entity been counted)
4.  After number 5, different expressions are possible. Also, there are differences

     among speakers (I have data from 4 speakers). For instance, other expressions

     for # 6 are:

      te-hɨtɨ  ɨha-tupɨ “five plus thumb [from the other hand]’

     te-hɨtɨ  kɨno-maka-jo   “close to five”

     te-hɨtɨ seɲã-maka-jo     “after five”

5.  The glosses for # ten would be: all-hand-PL


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