Xârâcùù

Language name and locationː Xârâcùù, New Caledonia [Refer to Ethnologue]
语言名称和分布地区: 哈拉楚语, 新喀里多尼亚岛南部海岸地区

1. ʃaː	21. xɛ̃ ʃaː kãmũrũ mɛ̃ ʃaː
2. ᵐbaːru	22. xɛ̃ ʃaː kãmũrũ mɛ̃ ᵐbaːru
3. ᵐbaʃe:	23. xɛ̃ ʃaː kãmũrũ mɛ̃ ᵐbaʃe:
4. kɛ̃rɛ̃fɨɛ	24. xɛ̃ ʃaː kãmũrũ mɛ̃ kɛ̃rɛ̃fɨɛ
5. kɛ̃rɛnɨ̃rɨ̃	25. xɛ̃ ʃaː kãmũrũ mɛ̃ kɛ̃rɛnɨ̃rɨ̃
6. kɛ̃rɛnɨ̃rɨ̃ mɛ̃ ʃaː (5 + 1)	26. xɛ̃ ʃaː kãmũrũ mɛ̃ kɛ̃rɛnɨ̃rɨ̃ mɛ̃ ʃaː
7. kɛ̃rɛnɨ̃rɨ̃ mɛ̃ ᵐbaːru (5 + 2)	27. xɛ̃ ʃaː kãmũrũ mɛ̃ kɛ̃rɛnɨ̃rɨ̃ mɛ̃ ᵐbaːru
8. kɛ̃rɛnɨ̃rɨ̃ mɛ̃ ᵐbaʃe: (5 + 3)	28. xɛ̃ ʃaː kãmũrũ mɛ̃ kɛ̃rɛnɨ̃rɨ̃ mɛ̃ ᵐbaʃe:
9. kɛ̃rɛnɨ̃rɨ̃ mɛ̃ kɛ̃rɛ̃fɨɛ (5 + 4)	29. xɛ̃ ʃaː kãmũrũ mɛ̃ kɛ̃rɛnɨ̃rɨ̃ mɛ̃ kɛ̃rɛ̃fɨɛ
10. ⁿduʃɛ̃ːxɛ̃ (litː 'two hands')	30. xɛ̃ ʃaː kãmũrũ mɛ̃ ⁿduʃɛ̃ːxɛ̃
11. ⁿduʃɛ̃ːxɛ̃ mɛ̃ ʃaː	40. xɛ̃ ᵐbaːru kãmũrũ (2 x 20)
12. ⁿduʃɛ̃ːxɛ̃ mɛ̃ ᵐbaːru	50. xɛ̃ ᵐbaːru kãmũrũ mɛ̃ ⁿduʃɛ̃ːxɛ̃
13. ⁿduʃɛ̃ːxɛ̃ mɛ̃ ᵐbaʃe:	60. ᵐbaʃe: kãmũrũ (3 x 20)
14. ⁿduʃɛ̃ːxɛ̃ mɛ̃ kɛ̃rɛ̃fɨɛ	70. ᵐbaʃe: kãmũru mɛ̃ ⁿduʃɛ̃ːxɛ̃
15. acaː / ⁿduʃɛ̃ːxɛ̃ mɛ̃	80. kɛ̃rɛ̃fɨɛ kãmũrũ (4 x 20)
16. acaː mɛ̃ ʃaː	90. kɛ̃rɛ̃fɨɛ kãmũrũ mɛ̃ ⁿduʃɛ̃ːxɛ̃
17. acaː mɛ̃ ᵐbaːru	100. ⁿdɛːri*
18. acaː mɛ̃ ᵐbaʃe:
19. acaː mɛ̃ kɛ̃rɛ̃fɨɛ
20. xɛ̃ ʃaː kãmũrũ ('kãmũrũ='person')

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Claire Moyse-Faurie, LACITO-CNRS, Paris, France.
July 15, 1988.
提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Claire Moyse-Faurie, 1988 年 7 月 15 日

Other comments: Xârâcùù has a traditional quinary-vigesimal counting system based on hands and persons. The wordsː 'xɛ̃'=hand; 'acaː'=foot, 'kãmũrũ'=person; ⁿdɛːri=people. Nowadays, the Xârâcùù people might used French numbers after five. Xârâcùù is a tonal Austronesian language. This is rare in the Austronesian language family. Xârâcùù is spoken by about 5,000 speakers in east coast of North and South provinces and west coast west coast Boulouparis and La Foa, New Caledonia.

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