Language name and location: Bimin, Papua New Guinea [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 比明语, 巴布亚新几内亚西部省, 桑道恩省及南高地省

1. ɐᵘkʰ (litː 'thumb of left-hand')

21. ben mɐɾi

2. ɐᵘkʰ teben (litː 'index finger')

22. ɡuŋ mɐɾi

3. ⁱemɐmɐs (litː 'middle finger')

23. ɐᵘkʰ mɐɾi (lit: 'right hand thumb')

4. ketket teben (litː 'finger finger of LH')

24. ɐᵘkʰ teben mɐɾi (lit: 'right index finger')

5. ketket (litː 'pinky finger')

25. ⁱemɐmɐs mɐɾi

6. ɡuŋ  (litː 'wrist')

26. ketket teben mɐɾi

7. ben  (litː 'lower arm')

27. ketket mɐɾi  

8. dᵘɐn (litː 'inner elbow')

9. teⁱp (litː 'upper arm')

10. kiŋ (litː 'shoulder)

11. kᵘeɾ (litː 'neck')

12. χɐɾuŋ (litː 'ear')

13. kiːn (litː 'eye')

14. mutum (litː 'nose')

15. kiːn mɐɾi (litː 'eye on right side')

16. χɐɾuŋ mɐɾi (litː 'ear on right side')

17. kᵘeɾ mɐɾi

18. kiŋ mɐɾi

19. teⁱp mɐɾi

20. dᵘɐn mɐɾi

Linguist providing data and dateː Mr. Thomas Weber, Wycliffe International, May 27, 2011.

提供资料的语言学家: Mr. Thomas Weber. 2011 年 5 月 27 日.

Other comments: Bimin is spoken by approximately 2,200 speakers in Western province, Sandaun province and Southern Highlands province, Papua New Guinea. Bimin has a counting system is based on 27. The people still use  their vernacular terms for numbers up to 20 (''duan mali" or als "mali em duan''). A full circle of 27 used to be called ''fu deng'' -- is not used any more, except for ''fu'', which is now sometimes used for ''plenty/many''. The counting is also equivalent to a body part:
left-hand-thumb (1), LH-index (2), LH-middle finger (3), LH-ring finger (4),  LH-pinky (5), LH-wrist (6), LH-lower arm (7), LH-inner ellbow (8), LH-upper arm (9), LH-shoulder (10), LH-neck (11), LH-ear (12), LH-eye (13), nose (14). The ''mari'' indicates ''other side'', ie. all the right hand body parts. After ''gung mari'' (22), the system goes off symmetric: (23) is ''auk mari'' [starting with the thumb again] instead of the expected ''ketket mari'', which in the Bimin system is (27).