Language name and location: Aruamu, Papua New Guinea [Refer to Ethnologue ]
 语言名称和分布地区: 阿鲁亚穆语 (米卡留语Mikarew), 巴布亚新几内亚马当省

 

1. vamɨra

2. pumuniŋ

3. pumuniŋ ko mɨkezim (2+1, ko means “and”)

4. pumuniŋ ko pumuniŋ (2+2)

5. dafarir vuem  (meaning “one hand”)

6. dafarir vuem ko vamɨra

7. dafarir vuem ko pumuniŋ

8. dafarir vuem ko mɨkezim

9. dafarir vuem ko pumuniŋ ko pumuniŋ

10. dafarir pumuniŋ

11. dafarir pumuniŋ ko vamɨra

12. dafarir pumuniŋ ko pumuniŋ

13. dafarir pumuning ko dafarir vuem

14. dafarir pumuniŋ ko pumuning ko pumuniŋ

15. dafarir pumuniŋ ko dafarir vuem

16. dafarir pumuniŋ ko dafarir vuem ko vamɨra

17. dafarir pumuniŋ ko dafarir vuem ko pumuniŋ

18. dafarir pumuniŋ ko dafarir vuem ko pumuniŋ ko mɨkezim

19. dafarir pumuniŋ ko dafarir vuem ko pumuniŋ ko pumuniŋ

20. dafarir pumuniŋ ko dafarir vuem ko vuem.

21. dafarir pumuniŋ ko vuem ko vuem ko vamɨra

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Ms. Marsha Relyea Milesr, Pioneer Bible Translators, Papua New Guinea, October 18, 2021
提供资料的语言学家: Ms. Marsha Relyea Miles, 2021 年 10 月 18 日.

 

Other comments: Other comments: Aruamu or Mikarew is spoken by approximately 12,000 speakers in Bogia district, Mandang province, Papua New Guinea. Aruamu system has a 2-cycle basic numeral set (1, 2) and with a word for hand 'dafarir '. They can count with this way up to twenty-one or higher. However, because the Aruamu number system is cumbersome, in this last generation, most people do not use the Aruamu numbers above five. They just switch to Tok Pisin numbers.  Or they just use the Aruamu word for “many”:  avɨriba.

Language name and location: Aruamu, Papua New Guinea [Refer to Ethnologue ]
 语言名称和分布地区: 阿鲁亚穆语 (米卡留语Mikarew), 巴布亚新几内亚马当省

 

1. vuamura

2. pumuni, puniŋ

3. pumuni koma pumuni /  pumuni ko mukesim ( 2 + 1 )

4. pumuni koma pumuni / pumuni ko pumuni ( 2 + 2 )

5. pumuni koma pumuni koma mukesim (SIL data 1975) / afarim vuamura

 

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 15, Madang Province Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Lae, Papua New Guinea, 1991.
提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Glen A. Lean, 1991 年.

 

Other comments: Aruamu or Mikarew is spoken in Bogia district, Mandang province, Papua New Guinea. Aruamu system is a 2-cycle one with the basic numeral set (1, 2); 3 has a '2+1' construction (or rather 'two+another') and 4 has a '2+2' construction. The SIL word list has a '2+2+1' construction for 5 as has two of the CSQ informants: one informant has 'hand one' but otherwise there is no information that this is a digit-tally system. New data needed to compare with the old one.

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