Language name and locationː Mape (Mabe), Papua New Guinea [Refer toː Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 马佩语, 巴布亚新几内亚莫罗贝省

 

1. moakoŋɡ

2. yoyoka

3. yokaomo (lit: 2+ 1)

4. yokaoyoka (lit: 2+ 2)

5. me mo (litː 'hand one') 

6. me mo moakoŋ

7. me mo yoyoka

8. me mo yoyaomo

9. me mo yokaoyoka

10. me yoyoka  (litː ''hand two'' )

15. me yoka a mo or meyoyoka kifuo mobu (Geoff Smith 1984)

20. me yoka o yoka or ngi mebu (Geoff Smith 1984)

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Mr. Soini Olkkonen, SIL-International,

Papua New Guinea,  October 3, 2008.
提供资的语言学家: Mr. Soini Olkkonen, 2008 年 10 月 3 日.

 

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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