Language name and location: Southern Tutchone, Yukon, Canada [Refer to Ethnologue]
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1. łə.tʃʼí * |
2. łə.kí |
3. tə́ɪ.ké ~ tɑ̀.də́.tʃʼé * |
4. łə̀.ń.tʃʼé |
5. kʷə́.là.kʔɯ́ |
10. nɛ́.nə́. tʃʼé |
Linguist providing data and dateː Mr. Daniel Tlen. Education Programs & Curriculum Consultant, First Nations Programs & Partnerships, Department of Education, Whitehorse, Yukon Canada. December 15, 2010. 提供资料的语言学家: Mr. Daniel Tlen, 2010 年 12 月 15 日. |
Other comments: Southern
Tutchone is a moribund language spoken by 140
older adults only out of 1,400 ethnic
population in Yukon territory: Aishihik, Burwash Landing, Champagne,
Haines Junction, Kloo Lake, Klukshu, Lake Laberge, and Whitehorse
settlements, Canada.
Southern
Tutchone speakers only
know traditional numerals 1 to 5 and 10.
like many
Athapaskan languages is very limited in numbers, per se, but it it is rich in describing numbers in alternate ways,
these
languages classify the world through
verb stems that specify such features such as shape, texture, and
plural.
We
have the numbers one to five, and the number ten (in orthographic
spellings):
hech'i, (1), lheki (2), teyke (3), lhaninch'e (4), kwalaak'uh (5) [i.e.,
the fingers on one hand), and nenach'e (10) [i.e., all the way across
(e.g., the ten fingers of two hands]. There was never a need to say how
many animals, or people there were.
Conversely, the verb system is rich with verb stems that describe the
shapes of singular objects and some plural-type objects.
Singular object classes are: animate object (human, dog), solid
dimensional object (rock, meat), stick-like object (pole, arrow), liquid
in a container object (cup of soup, pail of water), mud-like object
(mud, ointment), granular object class (sand, rice), and plural objects
(any plural grouping) including a rope-like object class (string,
rope).
Southern Tutchone is a low-marked tone language. |
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