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Language name and locationː Mape (Mabe), Papua New Guinea [Refer toː Ethnologue] |
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1. moakoŋɡ |
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2. yoyoka |
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3. yokaomo (lit: 2+ 1) |
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4. yokaoyoka (lit: 2+ 2) |
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5. me mo (litː 'hand one') |
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6. me mo moakoŋ |
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7. me mo yoyoka |
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8. me mo yoyaomo |
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9. me mo yokaoyoka |
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10. me yoyoka (litː ''hand two'' ) |
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15. me yoka a mo or meyoyoka kifuo mobu (Geoff Smith 1984) |
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20. me yoka o yoka or ngi mebu (Geoff Smith 1984) |
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Linguist providing data and dateː Mr. Soini Olkkonen, SIL-International, Papua New Guinea,
October
3, 2008. |
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Other comments: The Mape or Mabe system is a digit-tally one with a basic numeral set (1, 2,). The numeral words for 5 and 10 both contain a 'hand' morpheme 'me'. Another data collected by Geoff Smith (1984) had the numbers for 15 'me yoka a mo or meyoyoka kifuo mobu 'hands two and leg one whole' and 20 me yoka o yoka or ngi mobu 'man whole' Note thatː q = IPA [k͡p], gb = IPA [ɡ͡b], z = IPA[ts] |
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