Language name and location: Bayono, Papua province, Indonesia [Refer to Ethnologue]
语言名称和分布地区: 巴尤诺语, 印度尼西亚巴布亚省西南部阿斯马特地区

1. tjã

2. 'tjãmuɾu

3. bu'ɾumuɾu

4. 'temuɾu

5. 'tauɡɔ

6. 'tõɡɔ

7. 'bɔɡɔ

8. bunuɡɔ

9. 'tuɡɔ

10. 'mɨɡɔ or 'mu͡ɨɡɔ

11. kubu'kahɡɔ

12. du'ɡɔɡɔ

13. kəɾi'buɡɔ

14. mə'sasɔ'

15. mə'sa'tu

16. mə'sa'bunu

17. mə'sa'bunu'bwa(ɡɔ)

18. mə'sa(so) 'tə̃(ɡɔ)

19. mə'sa(so) 'tau(ɡɔ)

20. mə'sa(so) 'temuɾu(ɡɔ)

21. mə'sa(so) bu'ɾumuɾu(ɡɔ)

22. mə'sa(so) tjãmuɾu(ɡɔ)

23. tjã taɾa'busaɾe

Linguist providing data and dateː Mr. Matthew Edelen, Pioneers International,

Papua, Indonesia, February 21, 2012, November 11, 2020.

提供资料的语言学家: Mr. Matthew Edelen, 2012 年 2 月 21 日, 2020 年 11 月 11 日.

Other comments: Bayono is spoken by about 300 speakers in Eilanden-Steenboom river area, Asmat regency, Papua province, Indonesia. The Awbono / Bayono people use a tally counting system up to 23. This data is for the language Awbono / Bayono of Papua Indonesia, Ethnologue codes awh & byl, determined to be the same language in an informal language survey conducted by Matthew Edelen (Pioneers) and Peter Jan Devries (Wycliffe) in 2008. Cultural note: The LC stated that the evangelist from the Yali tribe (highlands Papua Indonesia tribe) counts with these same positions, but adding locations at the base of the neck on each side, and at the side of the head above the ear on each side, totaling 27 positions, if I am not mistaken.  But Awbono/Bayono here shows 23 positions.  I believe counting above 23 entails reversing direction and counting back along the same positions, 22 becoming 24, 21 becoming 25, and so on. Very large numbers are signified by multiples of 23 (although I think it’s in a general sense, not exact multiples of 23), by motioning with the hand along the 23 positions in a fast broad sweep, and back again in reverse, and then again in forward, and again in reverse, until the desired number or approximate number is reached. Therefore 100 may be signified by 4 such sweeps: forward, backward, forward, backward, totaling 92, and then, if counting with exactness, perhaps counting individually the remaining 8 positions at the end.  I am not sure about this last part regarding exactness though.  They may suffice with an approximate represented by 4 sweeps.