Sekani

Language name and location: Sekani, Fort Ware, BC, Canada [Refer to Ethnologue]
语言名称和分布地区: 塞卡尼语, 加拿大卑詩省北部纳尔逊堡地区

1. ɬɪ̀ɣèʔ	21. ɬèkwe kʼènètʼe ɬɪ̀ɣèʔ mʌtahi
2. ɬèkwetʼe, ɬèkweʼʌtʼe, ɬèkwedʌtʼe *	22. ɬèkwe kʼènètʼe ɬèkwedʌtʼe mʌtahi
3. tadʌtʼe	23. ɬèkwe kʼènètʼe tadʌtʼe mʌtahi
4. dĩdʌtʼe, ɬènètʼe	24. ɬèkwe kʼènètʼe ɬènètʼe mʌtahi
5. ɬahtsʼehtʼe	25. ɬèkwe kʼènètʼe ɬahtsʼehtʼe mʌtahi
6. ʔihtsʼèʔ tadʌtʼe, ɬihtsʼèʔ tadʌtʼe	26. ɬèkwe kʼènètʼe ʔihtsʼèʔ tadʌtʼe mʌtahi
7. tajwèdzèʔ	27. ɬèkwe kʼènètʼe tajwèdzèʔ mʌtahi
8. ʔihtsʼèʔ dĩdʌtʼe, ɬihtsʼèʔ dĩdʌtʼe, etc	28. ɬèkwe kʼènètʼe ʔihtsʼèʔ dĩdʌtʼe mʌtahi
9. ɬɪ̀ɣèʔ nɪdùwè (litː 10 - 1?)	29. ɬèkwe kʼènètʼe ɬɪ̀ɣèʔ nɪdùwè mʌtahi
10. kʼènètʼe	30. tadʌkʼènètʼe
11. ɬɪ̀ɣèʔ mʌɡàh niʔã, ɬɪ̀ɣèʔ mʌtahi	40. ɬènètʼe kʼènètʼe
12. ɬèkwetʼe mʌɡàh niʔã *	50. ɬahtsʼehkʼènètʼe
13. tadʌtʼe mʌɡàh niʔã, tadʌtʼe mʌtahi	60. ʔihtsʼèʔ tadʌkʼènètʼe
14. dĩdʌtʼe mʌɡàh niʔã, dĩdʌtʼe mʌtahi	70. tajwèdzèʔ kʼènètʼe
15. ɬahtsʼehtʼe mʌɡàh niʔã *	80. ʔihtsʼèʔ dĩdʌtʼe kʼènètʼe
16. ʔihtsʼèʔ tadʌtʼe mʌɡàh niʔã *	90. ɬɪ̀ɣèʔ nɪdùwè kʼènètʼe
17. tajwèdzèʔ mʌɡàh niʔã *	100. kʼènètʼe kʼènètʼe (10 x 10), kʼènètʼe tahi
18. ʔihtsʼèʔ dĩdʌtʼe mʌɡàh niʔã *	200.
19. ɬɪ̀ɣèʔ nɪdùwè mʌɡàh niʔã *	1000.
20. ɬèkwe kʼènètʼe	2000.

Linguist providing data and dateː Prof. Sharon Hargus, Department of Linguistics,
University of Washington, Seattle, Canada, June 10, 2015.
提供资料的语言学家: Prof. Sharon Hargus, 2015 年 6 月 10 日.

Other comments: Sekani, also known as Kwadacha (Fort Ware) Tsek’ene / Kwadacha Tsek’ene. The Kwadacha Nation (home of the Tsek’ene people) is located at Fort Ware, approximately 570 Km north of Prince George in British Colombia, Canada. The Sekani is a moribund language only spoken by approxiamley 59 speakers out of 1,500 ethnic population.
Sekani has a decimal system with special terms for 6, 8 and 9; the numbers 6 and 8 are
combined with 'three' and 'four', number '9' might be from (10) lacking of one'.
There are some options for numbers 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.
number 2ː ɬèkwʊdʌtʼe, 12. ɬèkwetʼe mʌtahi, etc, 15. ɬahtsʼehtʼe mʌtahi, etc,
16. ʔihtsʼèʔ tadʌtʼe mʌtahi, etc, 17. tajwèdzèʔ mʌtahi, 18. ʔihtsʼèʔ dĩdʌtʼe mʌtahi,
19. ɬɪ̀ɣèʔ nɪdùwè mʌtahi
Note that the above data is in IPA transcriptions and using Athabaskanist symbols /d t t’/ convention for /t th t’/ etc. This number system had to coaxed out of speaker memories and is really cobbled together from several minds
Sekani has two tones, low and high. High is the default. That is, syllable normally have high tone. Syllables phonologically marked for tone are low.

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