Guila Zapotec

Language name and locationː Güilá Zapotec, Oaxaca, Mexico [Refer to Ethnologue]
语言名称和分布地区: 古伊拉-萨波特克语, 墨西哥西南部瓦哈卡地区

1. tɨ̀ ~ tʃá (only with tortillas)	21. ɡaldbtǔbʲ
2. tjǒp	22. ɡaldbtjǒp
3. tʃǒn	23. ɡaldbtʃǒn
4. tàp	24. ɡaldbtàp
5. ɡàːj	25. ɡaldbgàːj
6. ʃòːp	26. ɡaldbʃòːp
7. ɡǎs	27. ɡaldbɡǎs
8. ʃǔnː	28. ɡaldbʃǔn
9. ɡàː	29. ɡaldbɡàː
10. tsɨ̀ː	30. ɡaldbtsɨ̀ː
11. tsɨ̀btǔbʲ (tǔbʲ is 1 in other towns)	40. tjuàː
12. tsɨ̀tjǒp	50. tjuabtsɨ̀ː
13. tsèʔnʲ	60. ɡayôn (potential aspect of 3)
14. tsɨ̀dàː	70. ɡayomtsɨ̀ː
15. tsèːnʲ	80. tàː (poss. Reduced form of 4)
16. tsèmbtǔbʲ	90. tabtsɨ̀ː
17. tsèmtjǒp	100. tɨ̀ ɡayuwàː
18. tsèmtʃǒn	200. tyǒp ɡayuwàː
19. tsèmbtàp	1000. tɨ̀ mîl (Spanish loan)
20. ǎld (base number)	2000. tyǒp mîl (Spanish loan)

Linguists providing data and dateː Mr. Ricky Kroeger, SIL-International, November 30, 2020.

提供资料的语言学家: Mr. Ricky Kroeger, 2020 年 11 月 30 日

Other comments: Güilá Zapotec (Diza) or Zapoteco de San Pablo Güilá, Zapoteco de Valles del Este Central is spoken by approxiamtely 9,500 speakers in Oaxaca state: San Dionisio Ocotepec municipality, Matatlan and San Pablo Güilá agencies, Mexico.

Güilá Zapotec number system is base twenty (vigesimal system). At least one speaker I have heard interviewed uses a system in which he “counts down” to the nearest multiple of the base number or possibly all multiples of ten when he gets within five numbers of it. For exampleː
    55- skaj jísàʔ gayon (“it will be another five to complete sixty”)
    56- stap jísàʔ gayon (“it will be another four to complete sixty”)
    57- stʃon jísàʔ gayon (“it will be another three to complete sixty”)
    58- stjop jísàʔ gayon (“it will be another two to complete sixty”)
    59- stɨ̀ jísàʔ gayon (“it will be another one to complete sixty”)
   Morphologically
    s-tɨ̀                           jí-sàʔ
   ANOTHER-one       POTENTIAL.ASPECT-complete
   Other speakers do not have this feature. Most young people, perhaps under fifty, hardly know how to count above ten in Zapotec, and instead use Spanish.

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