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

语言名称和分布地区: 比图尔语, 巴布亚新几内亚西部省弗莱河南岸Upiara村

1. /orag/ ‘one.N1’; /oreag/ ‘one.ANIM’; /orieg/ ‘one.N2’

2. /mita/

3. /mita orag/

4. /mita mita/

5. /mita mita orag/ or /(paroa) neai/ ‘(side) fingers’ or /(paroa) eaba/ ‘(side) hand’

    **for this and all subsequent forms, /neai/ and /eaba/ are used interchangeably**

6. /mita mita mita/ **can concatenate ‘two’ and ‘one’ indefinitely for higher

     numbers** or /(paroa) neai orag/

7. /paroa neai mita/

8. /paroa neai mita orag/

9.  /paroa neai mita mita/

10.  /mita tamuma neai/ ‘two eating fingers’ or /mita neai/

11.  /mita tamuma neai orag/

12.  /mita tamuma neai mita/

13.  /mita tamuma neai mita orag/

14.  /mita tamuma neai mita mita/

15.  /mita tamuma neai paroa sokei (neai)/ ‘two eating fingers side leg (fingers)’ or

      /mita tamuma neai paroa aworma neai/ ‘two eating fingers side walking fingers’

      **/sokei (neai)/ and /aworma neai/ are interchangeably used for referring to all

      the toes on a foot**

16. /mita tamuma neai paroa aworma neai orag/

17.  /mita tamuma neai paroa aworma neai mita/

18.  /mita tamuma neai paroa aworma neai mita orag/

19.  /mita tamuma neai paroa aworma neai mita mita/

20.  /mita tamuma neai mita aworma neai/

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Philip G. Rogers, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, October 28, 2016. 

提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Philip G. Rogers, 2016 年 10 月 28 日.

Other comments: Bitur is spoken by about 900 speakers in several villages south bank and inland of Fly river, Western province, Papua New Guinea. Bitur has a tally system up to sixty. The numbers from 21 to 60 are expressed as followsː

21. /nogea mita tamuma neai (uriri) nogea mita aworma neai (uriri) ogea orag/ ‘my

     two eating fingers (and) my two walking fingers (and) your one’

22. /nogea mita tamuma neai (uriri) nogea mita aworma neai (uriri) ogea mita/

23. /nogea mita tamuma neai (uriri) nogea mita aworma neai (uriri) ogea mita orag/

24. /nogea mita tamuma neai (uriri) nogea mita aworma neai (uriri) ogea mita mita/

25. /nogea mita tamuma neai (uriri) nogea mita aworma neai (uriri) ogea (paroa)

      (tamuma) neai/

26. /nogea mita tamuma neai (uriri) nogea mita aworma neai (uriri) ogea (paroa)

      (tamuma) neai (uriri) orag/

27. /nogea mita tamuma neai (uriri) nogea mita aworma neai (uriri) ogea (paroa)

     (tamuma) neai (uriri) mita/

28. /nogea mita tamuma neai (uriri) nogea mita aworma neai (uriri) ogea (paroa)

     (tamuma) neai (uriri) mita orag/

29. /nogea mita tamuma neai (uriri) nogea mita aworma neai (uriri) ogea (paroa)

      (tamuma) neai (uriri) mita mita/

30. /nogea mita tamuma neai (uriri) nogea mita aworma neai (uriri) ogea mita tamuma

      neai/

40. /nogea mita tamuma neai (uriri) nogea mita aworma neai (uriri) ogea mita tamuma

      neai (uriri) ogea mita aworma neai/

50. /nogea mita tamuma neai (uriri) nogea mita aworma neai (uriri) ogea mita tamuma

     neai (uriri) ogea mita aworma neai (uriri) igigea mita tamuma neai/ ‘… (and) his

     two eating fingers’

60. **the pattern above continues, with added numbers assigned to the fingers

A note on genetic classification: Bitur and the other Tirio languages are almost surely Trans-New Guinea. I don’t know if this affects your classification. Also, Abom is also likely Trans-New Guinea, but this has yet to be demonstrated (I’m working on it right now!).