Language name and location: Sherbro, Sierra Leone [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 谢尔布罗语 (南部布隆语 Southern Bullom ), 塞拉利昂南部省份

1. bul

21.  kuaŋ-ni-bul

2. tiŋ

22.  kuaŋ-ni-tiŋ

3. ra

23.  kuaŋ-ni-ra

4. hiɔl   

24.  kuaŋ-ni-hiɔl

5. mɛn

25.  kuaŋ-ni-mɛn

6. mɛnbul   (5+1)

26.  kuaŋ-ni-mɛnbul

7. mɛntiŋ    (5+2)

27.  kuaŋ-ni-mɛntiŋ

8. mɛnra     (5+3)

28.  kuaŋ-ni-mɛnra

9. mɛnhiɔl   (5+4)

29.  kuaŋ-ni-mɛnhiɔl

10. waŋ

30.  kuaŋ-ni-waŋ (20+10)

11. waŋ-ni-bul

40.  kuaŋ-tiŋ (20 x 2)

12. waŋ-ni-tiŋ

50.  kuaŋ-tiŋ-ni-waŋ

13. waŋ-ni-ra

60.  kuaŋ-ra (20 x 3)

14. waŋ-ni-hiɔl 

70.  kuaŋ-ra-ni-waŋ

15. waŋ-ni-mɛn

80.  kuaŋ-hiɔl (20 x 4)

16. waŋ-ni-mɛnbul

90.  kuaŋ-hiɔl-ni-waŋ

17. waŋ-ni-mɛntiŋ

100. kɛmɛ ('kɛmɛ, loan 'from Soso ) 

18. waŋ-ni-mɛnra

200. kɛmɛ tiŋ

19. waŋ-ni-mɛnhiɔl

1000. tawsin (<English ''thousand'' )

20. kuaŋ 

2000. tawsin tiŋ

Linguist providing data and dateː Prof. Tucker Childs, Department of Applied Linguistics, Portland State University, Portland, USA, November 2, 2019.

提供资料的语言学家: Prof. Tucker Childs, 2019 年 11 月 2 日.

Other comments: Sherbro has a traditional quinary-vigesimal system, but nowadays, nobody uses these numbers - everyone counts when the numbers get higher than ten in either English / Krio (v. 'thousand'). The quinary-vigesimal system is what is found in all of Sherbro's closest relatives. Sherbro was once a tonal language but can no longer be characterized as being so. There are some traces of grammatical tone, which exists in related lgs, and some lexical tone, but not enough to make it a truly tonal language. I commented on tone in the grammar but generally do not mark it.  

Sherbro or Southern Bullom is spoken by approximately 200,000 speakers in

Southern province: Bonthe and Mayamba districts; Western Area: Rural district, Benducha, Ima, Nongoba, Ribbi, Shenge, Sicie, and Timdel; southwest coastal areas, Sierra Leone.

Language name and location: Sherbro, Sierra Leone [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 谢尔布罗语, 塞拉利昂

1. bul

21.  kwono ni bul

2. tɪŋ

22.  22 to 29 in the same pattern

3. ræ

23.  

4. hyo̠l     o̠ = French ''au'' in ''aube'

24.  

5. mɛn

25.  

6. mɛn-bul   (5+1)

26.  

7. mɛn-tɪŋ    (5+2)

27.  

8. mɛn-ra     (5+3)

28. 

9. mɛn-hyo̠l  (5+4)

29.  

10. wāŋ

30.  kwono̠ ni wāŋ   (20+10)

11. wāŋ ni bul

40.  kwono̠ aña tɪŋ * (20 x 2 )

12. wāŋ ni tɪŋ

50.  kwono̠ aña tɪŋ ni wāŋ

13. wāŋ ni ræ

60.  kwono̠ ræ *

14. wāŋ ni hyo̠l  

70.  kwono̠ ræ ni bul

15. wāŋ ni mɛn

80.  kwono̠ hyo̠l

16. wāŋ ni mɛn-buk

90.  kwono̠ hyo̠l ni bul

17. wāŋ ni mɛn-tɪŋ

100. ho̠ndrɛ̠d (< English ''hundred'')

18. wāŋ ni mɛn-ra

200. ho̠ndrɛ̠d tɪŋ

19. wāŋ ni mɛn-hyo̠l 

1000. tawsin (< English ''thousand'')

20. kwono̠ (< koŋ õ no̠) * 

2000. tawsin tɪŋ

Linguist providing data and dateː

Reference sourceː Walter J. Pichl, 'Sherbro', in M. E. Kropp Dakubu ed., 'West African

Language Data Sheets, Volume II, West African Linguistics Society, 1977.

Other comments: Sherbro has a quinary, vigesimal system. 20 is derived from koŋ õ no̠ means ''finished it is man'', 40 is finished men two and 60 is finished men three'', but 70 80 and 90 used the word ''bul'', the meaning of which is unknown. hundreds and thousands are loanwords from English.