THE TRADITIONAL SYSTEM OF NUMERALS IN KILBA
THE TRADITIONAL SYSTEM OF NUMERALS IN KILBA

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the numerals system of Kilba, a language of the Bata-Marghi sub-group of the Chadic family of the Afro-Asiatic phylum, predominantly spoken in Hong and Gombi Local Government Areas of Adamawa State, Nigeria. The article presents the system of enumeration in the language, which is classified into the following: cardinals, ordinals, numeral adverbials, distributive numerals, fractions and other expressions of quantity in the language, such as: bàdəgàl (“a great deal”), cá/cá, à /cácá/cácá, à dəhù and pàpàtù or pàtù (“all”).

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