Language name and location: Angoram, Papua New Guinea [Refer to Ethnologue ]
言名称和分布地区安戈拉姆语, 巴布亚新几内亚东锡皮克省内陆安戈拉姆区

 

1. biaŋ

2. klupar

3. klerm, klerim

4. sikor

5. tam

6. tam biaŋ    (5+1)

7. tam klupar (5+2)

10. tambalum, tapalum

20. walami biaŋ

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Glen A. Lean, Department of Communications, Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Lae, Papua New Guinea, 1991.

Sourceː Glendon A. Lean. Counting systems of Papua New Guinea, volume 14, East Sepik Province Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Lae, Papua New Guinea, 1991.
供资料的语言学家: Dr. Glen A. Lean, 1991 年.

 

Other comments: Angoram is spoken by approximately 8,000 speakers in Angoram district, lower Sepik river area, East Sepik province, Papua New Guinea. The above pattern of Angoram system is either a (5, 20) one or a (5, 10, 20) one. There are at least four basic numeralsː 1 is 'biaŋ', 2 is klipar', 3 is 'klerm or 'klerim', and 4 is 'sikor. The word for hand is given uniformly as 'yakli' which does not appear in the number word for 5, 'tam'. Nor does it appear in the numbers word for 10, 'tapalum' or 'tambalum'. The numbers word for 20 is 'walami biaŋ; and the 'walami' is used to construct subsequent 20-cylcle. 'Walami' is not the same as the word for 'man', given as 'palino'.  New data needed to compare with the old one.


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