Language name and locationː Bina, Papua New Guinea [Refer to Ethnologue]
言名称和分布地区比纳语, 巴布亚新几内亚中部省东南部内陆地区之Baibara

 

1. kanaoni

2. buo

3. aiteri  (borrowed from Magi ?)

4. vati

5. ima (lit: 'hand')

6. ima riria kana ( 5 + 1 )

7. ima riria bau   ( 5 + 2 )

8. ima riria aiteri ( 5 + 3 )

9. ima riria vati   ( 5 + 4 )

10. aukana

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Tom E. Dutton, Department of linguistics, The
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, June 8, 1988.
提供资的语言家: Dr. Tom E. Dutton, 1988 年 6 月 8 日.

 

Other comments: Bina is a nearly extinct or become extinct language, this language may have a quinary counting system similar to that of Magori. Bina is an extinct Austronesian language formerly spoken in north of Baibara Central province, Papua New Guinea. It was restructured through contact with neighboring Papuan languages, and it turn influencing them, before speakers shifted to those languages.


 

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