Language name and locationː Vilela, Chaco province, Argentina [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 比莱拉语, 阿根廷东北部查科省与巴拉圭接壤雷西斯滕西亚镇巴拉圭河畔附近  

1. alapea

21. 

2. tamop

22. 

3. tamlip

23. 

4. lokwep

24. 

5. lokwep moitle alapea

25. 

6. lokwep moitle tamop

26. 

7. lokwep moitle tamlip

27. 

8. lokwep moitle lokwep

28. 

9. lokwep moitle lokwep alapea

29. 

10. is yawon-p

30.  tamlip is yamonp

11. is yawonp moitle alapea

40.  lokwep is yamonp

12. is yawonp moitle tamop

50. 

13. is yawonp moitle tamlip

60. 

14.

70. 

15.

80.  is yamonp moitle tekep tamop

16.

90. 

17.

100.

18.

200. is yamonp moitle tekep tamop

19.

300. is yamonp moitle tekep tamlip

20. tamop is yawonp

1000. is yamonp moitle tekep is yamonp

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Zamponi Raoul, Siena, Italy, January 11, 2013.

提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Zamponi Raoul, 2013 年 1 月 11 日

Other comments: Vilela or Lule-Vilela is a highly endangered language or extinct language: 20 speakers were reported in 1981. 2 semi-speakers remain. These semi-speakers are a brother and sister. They were 74 and 70 in 2008, lived in Chaco province: Resistencia; near Paraguay border, Argentina.

The basic numerals of Lule are four, as shown in (1). Except alapea ‘one’, they consist in a root followed by the adjectivizer -p.

  Table (1)

  alapea  ' 1', tamop '2', tamlip '3', lokwep '4'

  Beyond lokwep ‘four’, numerals are (reported to be) formed according to what might be defined mathematical principles.

  Table (2)

   lokwep moitle alapea '5' (lit., one beyond four)’

   lokwep moitle tamop '6' (lit., two beyond four)’

   lokwep moitle tamlip  '7' (lit., three beyond four)’

   lokwep moitle lokwep '8' (lit., four beyond four)’

   lokwep moitle lokwep alapea '9' (lit., five beyond four)’

  The numeral ‘ten’, according both Maccioni (1732) and Hervás y Panduro (1786), is

is yawon-p (hand all-adj) ‘all the hands’.

   is yawonp moitle alapea '11' (lit., one beyond all the hands)’

   is yawonp moitle tamop '12' (lit., two beyond all the hands)’

   tamop is yawonp '20' (lit., two all the hands)’

   tamlip is yawonp '30' (lit., three all the hands)’

   lokwep is yawonp '40' (lit., four all the hands)’

   lokwep moitle lokwep is yawonp '80' (lit., eight all the hands)’

   is yawonp moitle tekep tamop '200'

   is yavonp moitle tekep tamlip '300'

   is yavonp moitle tekep is yawonp '1.000'

   Sources:

   Maccioni, Antonio, 1732. Arte y vocabulario de la lengua Lule y Tonocoté. Madrid.

   Hervás y Panduro, Lorenzo, 1786. Idea dell'Universo che contiene la storia della vita dell'uomo, elementi cosmografici, viaggio estatico al mondo planetario e storia della terra. Vol. 19: Aritmetica delle Nazioni, e divisione del tempo fra l'Orientali. Cesena.