Language name and location: Sinyar, Ouaddaï region, Chad [Refer to Ethnologue]

言名称和分布地区辛雅尔语, 乍得东南部瓦代区及苏丹境内

 

1. kàllà

21. 

2. róò

22.  ʈìyà róò wò róò (wò from Arabic ?)

3. mùʈʈà

23. 

4. ùssà

24. 

5. mòy   

25. 

6. mìccà

26. 

7. mòorsò

27. 

8. màartà

28. 

9. mànɖéy

29. 

10. ʈìyà

30. 

11.

40. 

12. ʈìyà kásá róò {ten/?/two}

50. 

13.

60. 

14.

70. 

15.

80.  

16.

90. 

17.

100. ʈìyà-ŋà ʈìyà  {ten-PLURAL /ten}

18.

200.

19.

1000.

20. ʈìyà róò {ten / two}

2000.

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Pascal Boyeldieu, CNRS-LLACAN (The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research), Paris, France, taken from Field data, November 21, 2013.

供资料的语言学家: Dr. Pascal Boyeldieu, 2013 年 11 月 21 日.

 

Other comments: Sinyar is spoken by approximately 12,000 speakers in Ouaddaï region and Sila region, near confluence of Azum, Kaja, and Salih rivers, Chad and in Sudan. Sinyar is traditionally classified within Bongo-Bagirmi. It is in fact a kind of ‘mixed’ language that shares many lexical and morphological features with Bongo-Bagirmi (e.g. numerals) beside original features of its own, the origin of which has not been identified. The wò = 'and' as in 22 probably from Arabic.

N.B.ː j =IPA [ɟ]; y =IPA [j]; aa, ii, etc. = long vowelsː à / ā / á = L / M / H tone. 


 

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