Sinyar

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

语言名称和分布地区: 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.

提供资料的语言学家: 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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