Language name and location: Southern Tutchone, Yukon, Canada [Refer to Ethnologue]

言名称和分布地区南部图琼语, 加拿大育空省地区

 

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.

提供资的语言家: 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.
Note that ''tee-esh-glottalized'' [
tʃʼ] is the ''voiceless ejective palatal affricate''.


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