Wolaytta

Language name and locationː Wolaytta, Wolaytta zone, Ethiopia [Refer to Ethnologue ]

语言名称和分布地区: 沃莱塔语, 埃塞俄比亚西南部各族民族州沃莱塔地区

1. ʔisttá	21. laátamanné ʔistta /naaʔʔu támanné ʔistta
2. naaʔʔá	22. laátamanné naaʔʔa
3. heezzá	23. laátamanné heezza
4. ʔoiddá	24. laátamanné ʔoidda
5. ʔitʃtʃáʃa	25. laátamanné ʔitʃtʃaʃa
6. ʔusúppuna	26. laátamanné ʔusuppuna
7. laápuna	27. laátamanné laappuna
8. hósppuna	28. laátamanné hosppuna
9. ʔuddúpuna	29. laátamanné ʔuddupuna
10. támma	30. hástama / heézzú tamma
11. támmanné ʔistta / ʔisiíne	40. ʔoítama / ʔoiddú tamma
12. támmanné naaʔʔa	50. iʃátama / ʔitʃtʃaʃú tamma
13. támmanné heezza	60. ʔusúppún tamma
14. támmanné ʔoidda	70. laáppún tamma
15. támmanné ʔitʃtʃaʃa	80. hósppún tamma
16. támmanné ʔusuppuna	90. ʔuddúpún támma
17. támmanné laappuna	100. tʼeéta / ʔissí tʼeéta
18. támmanné hósppuna	200. naáʔʔú tʼeéta
19. támmanné ʔuddúfuna	1000. ʃáʔa / ʔissí ʃáʔa
20. laátama / naáʔʔú tamma	2000. naaʔʔú ʃáʔa, 100,000. tʼeétú ʃaʔa

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Sellassie Cheru, (Native Wolaitta speaker), Department of Linguistics, Addis Abba University. July 24, 2012.
提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Sellassie Cheru, 2012 年 7 月 24 日.

Other comments: Wolaitta or Wolaytta has a decimal numeral system. Wolaitta is one of the tonal accent languages of North Ometo cluster (Azeb 1996).

Notesː

1. Wolaitta has two tones:

<á> means high tone, low tone is not mark in this data.

2. Long vowels are written twice.

3. Germinate consonant sound are written twice.

4. <t’> is an stop ejective. <ʔ> is a glottal voiceless sound.

<š >=IPA ʃ, <č> = IPA tʃ, is a voiceless palatal affricative.

5. Data in second sets are less frequently used in the dialect.

6. Since the introduction of modern education, ʃáʔa and miiloóne (1,000,000) are

used as part of the numeral systems of Wolaitta.
Wolaitta is a North Omotic language of the Ometo group spoken in the Wolayita Zone and some other parts of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region of Ethiopia by approximately 1.6 million speakers.

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