Language name and locationː Dobu, Papua New Guinea [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 多布语, 巴布亚新几内亚米尔内湾省

 

1. ʔebwuna, ʔebweu

2. ʔeluwa

3. ʔetoi

4. ʔata

5. nima

6. nima ta ebweu ( 5 + 1 )

7. nima ta eluwa  ( 5 + 2 )

8. nima ta etoi     ( 5 + 3 )

9. nima ta ata      ( 5 + 4 )

10. sanau

11. sanau ta ebweu(na)

12. sanau ta eluwa

13. sanau ta etoi

14. sanau ta ata

15. sanau ta nima

16. sanau ta nima ebweu

17. sanau ta nima eluwa

18. sanau ta nima etoi

19. sanau ta nima ata

20. toʔebweu, ebweu tomotoi

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. David Lithgow, SIL International, Papua New Guinea. March 10, 1991.

提供资的语言学家: Dr. David Lithgow. 1991 年 3 月 10 日.

 

Other comments: Dobu has a quinary counting system. Now the preference is to use English numbers. The simple numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 and 20 might still be used frequently now. The word toʔebweu or ebweu tomotoi means 'one man'. 40 is tomoluwa.

 


                             

Back >> [ Home ] [ Austronesian ] [ Eastern Austronesian ]