Language name and locationː Tuma-Irumu, Papua New Guinea [Refer toː Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 图马伊鲁穆语, 巴布亚新几内亚莫罗贝省

 

1. kumbæ, kumbæɡaŋan

2. yaræ

3. yaræ kumbæ

4. yaræ bok yaræ bok

5. ket kukŋi kubæ  / iman

6. ket kukŋi kubæ kubæ

7. ket kukŋi kubæ yaræ

8. ket kukŋi kubæ yaræ kumbæ

9. ket kukŋi kubæ yaræ bok yaræ bok

10. kep kukŋi kudup / ket kutni kutni siaŋ

11. kuroŋ ken kumboŋ

12. kuroŋ ken yaræ

13. kuroŋ ken yaræ kumbæ

14. kuroŋ ken  yaræ bok yaræ bok 

15. kuron ken iman

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20. ken kuron kunduk  (litː 'hand leg closed')

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Mr. Ross Webb,  SIL International, Vanuatu. 

May 25, 2011.

提供资的语言学家: Mr. Ross Webb, 2011 年 5 月 25 日.

 

Other comments: Tuma-Irumu system has a basic numeral set (1, 2); 3 has the construction ' 2 plus 1' and 4 has the construction '2 plus 2', ket is the word for 'hand',

which appears in the number words for 6 and 10, 6 being 'hand other one'. The number word for 11 contains a 'leg' morpheme 'kuro' as does also 15 and 20. The word

for 20 has the gloss 'hand legs together'.


 

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