Language name and locationː Bau, Papua New Guinea [Refer to Ethnologue]

言名称和分布地区巴乌语, 巴布亚新几内亚马当省

 

1. osahi

2. elis

3. ied

4. qalecai / sipo

5. pesip

6. kesinup

7. etanup

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Mr. Hans van der Meer. SIL International, Papua New Guinea. April 6, 2011.

提供资的语言: Mr. Hans van der Meer, 2011 年 4 月 6 日.

 

Other comments: Generally the Bau people count till 3 (three) in their language. After that it is ‘many’ or ‘a lot’ or something like that. But when counting days, they can give numbers to the days of a week from 1 till 7. Nowadays they use the Melanesian Pidgin numerals for counting.


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