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

语言名称和分布地区: 比内语 (西部方言), 巴布亚新几内亚西部省

1. nɛtɛɾa

2. nɛnɛni

3. nesae

4. nasajɛ (nasaɛ)

5. nɛtɛɾa imɛ utɛ (lit. 'one hand resting/sleeping')

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Christian Döhler, General Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, June 23, 2019.

提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Christian Döhler , 2019 年 6 月 23 日.

Other comments: Bini has a traditional body-part tally system, however, speakers rarely count beyond four in Bine now. The word [nasajɛ] is polysemous and can mean 'three' or 'few' depending on the context. In elicitation, some speakers offered a periphrastic construction for numbers higher than four: 'five and one, five and two' and so on. However, most speakers use English numerals for these values. Bine is spoken by about 2,000 speakers in Daru district, south of Fly river, Western province, Papua New Guinea. The above data is from Western dialect of Bine (Irukupi, Drageli, Sibre Kupi).  

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

语言名称和分布地区: 比内语, 巴布亚新几内亚西部省

1. yepa

2. neneni

3. nesae

4. neneni neneni

5. ime ɡube nɡalu (lit: my hand all')

6. ime ɡube nɡalu yepa or nesae nesae

7. ime ɡube nɡalu neneni or nesae nesae yepa

8. ime ɡube nɡalu nesae or nesae nesae neneni

9. ime ɡube nɡalu neneni

10. nenei ime ɡube nɡalu  (lit: 'two my hands all')

Linguist providing data and dateː Mrs. Lillian Nicolas. Wycliffe International,

Papua New Guinea. May 31, 2011.

提供资料的语言学家: Mrs. Lillian Nicolas, 2011 年 5 月 31 日.

Other comments: Bini has a traditional body-part tally system with number works 1 to 4. The number word for 5 is 'imegube', tallied on the thumb, contains a 'hand' morpheme 'ime'. Thereafter, from 6 to 10 ( the midpoint of the tally), the words are the names of the body-parts used as tally points so that'. However, today they count in Bine only to three, or a few may still count in Bine to five.