Language name and locationː Tocho, South Kordofan, Sudan [Refer to Ethnologue]
语言名称和分布地区: 托乔语, 苏丹共和国南科尔多凡州努巴山区

1. caʊŋ c-ʊllʊk 

21.   

2. maʊŋ m-ɛrak

22.   

3. maʊŋ m-ət̪t̪ək

23.   

4. maʊŋ mɔ-brandɔ

24.   

5. maʊŋ mɔ-ɡʊɲcʊrʊk

25.   

6. maʊŋ pət̪t̪ək~pət̪t̪ək  (3~3)

26.   

7. maʊŋ m-ɛrɛk mɔ-brandɔ a-m-ɛrɛk
    m-ət̪t̪ək (4-3)  

27.   

8. maʊŋ prandɔ~prandɔ (4~4)

28.   

9. maʊŋ ca-ɡʊŋ c-ʊllʊk a-mɔ-brandɔ
   (5-4) 

29.   

10. maʊŋ attu. (attu, nat̪t̪ɪ, 'all hands')

30.  nat̪t̪ɪ n-ət̪t̪ək (10 x 3)

11.  

40.  nat̪t̪ɪ nɔ-brandɔ (10 x 4)

12.  

50.  nat̪t̪ɪ nɔ-ɡʊɲcʊrʊk (10 x 5)

13.  

60.  nat̪t̪ɪ pət̪t̪ək~pət̪t̪ək (10 x 6)

14.  

70.  nat̪t̪ɪ n-ɛrɛk nɔ-brandɔ a-n-ɛrɛk-n-ət̪t̪ək

15.  

80.  nat̪t̪ɪ prandɔ~prandɔ (10 x 8)

16. 

90.  nat̪t̪ɪ cəɡʊɲ-cʊrʊk a-no-brandɔ (10 x 9)

17. 

100. nat̪t̪ɪ attu (10 x 10)

18. 

200.  

19. 

1000. 

20. nat̪t̪ɪ n-ɛrak

2000. 

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Russell Norton, (Theological College of Northern Nigeria and SIL International)
Reference sourceː 2018-06-03. Parallel Grammar Documentation in Four Talodi Languages, Russell Norton (Theological College of Northern Nigeria and SIL International). Afrikanistik-Aegyptologie-Online. Germany.
提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Russell Norton.

Other comments: Tocho has a counting system based on ten with a special forms for 6, 7, 8 and 9. Tocho and Lumun base numerals have an initial /a-/ which can be interpreted as a plural nominal prefix, also found in people group nouns. Tocho as a suppletive plural nat̪t̪ɪ 'tens'. Under influence from Tira, then, Tocho deviates from other Talodi languages, in particular from the base 5 strategy found in the other two Narrow Talodi languages Dagik and Acheron, which is also reported in other Narrow Talodi languages apart from Tocho (Schadeberg 1981:45) and is thus the original system for that sub-branch. The Lumun system is different and more opaque. Lumun root compounds for 6 (-əɽa-kkʊrʊk 2-5) and 7 (-əɽa--əɽabʊrʊk 2-3) are not transparent sums or products of their component roots, despite Lumun 3 (-əɽa-bʊrʊk 2-1) being a transparent sum, so -əɽa is functionally opaque or polysemous in Lumun. In Lumun 6 (2-5), -əɽa functions as ‘successor’, thus 6 = ‘successor-5’. A successor etymology in Lumun 7 (2-3) would imply ‘successor-3’, which could be an opaque rendering of ‘successor-three[s]’ = ‘successor-6’ = 7. Another possible analysis is that 7 (2-3) is an abbreviation of 2-2-3=7(Smits 2017:295). Thus, of the three numeral systems found in these four languages, we have two historic systems of opaque compounding in Lumun and the base 5 strategy in the Narrow Talodi sub-branch, plus the Tocho system which resembles neighboring Tira instead.

Tocho is spoken by approximately 2,600 speakers in 15 villages near Saraf aj Jamus, and Delabaya, South Kordofan state, Sudan.