Language name and locationː Dusner, West Papua, Indonesia [Refer to Ethnologue]
言名称和分布地区杜斯内尔, 印尼西巴布亚省鸟头湾地区

 

1. yoser

21.  snontu yoser

2. nuru

22.  snontu nuru

3. tori

23.  snontu tori

4. pati

24.  snontu pati

5. rimbi

25.  snontu rimbi

6. rimbi yoser (5+ 1)

26.  snontu rimbi yoser

7. rimbi nuru  (5+ 2)

27.  snontu rimbi nuru

8. rimbi tori    (5+ 3)

28.  snontu rimbi tori

9. rimbi pati   (5+ 4)

29.  snontu rimbi pati

10. sampu

30.  snontu sur

11. sampu yoser

40.  snontu nuru (20 x 2)  

12. sampu nuru

50.  snontu nuru sur

13. sampu tori

60.  snontu tori  (20 x 3)

14. sampu pati

70.  snontu tori sur

15. sampu rimbi

80.  snontu pati  (20 x 4)

16. sampu rimbi yoser

90.  snontu pati sur

17. sampu rimbi nuru

100. utin

18. sampu rimbi tori

200. utin nuru

19. sampu rimbi pati

1000. siaran yoser  

20. snontu

2000. siaran nuru  

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Suriel Mofu and Dr. Mary Dalrymple, Centre for Linguistics and Philology, Clarendon Institute, Walton Street, Oxford OX1, University of Oxford, UK., March 13, 2012.
供资料的语言学家: Dr. Suriel Mofu and Dr. Mary Dalrymple, 2012 年 3 月 13 日.

 

Other comments: Dusner has a five-base (quinternary) number system. The numerals up to thirty and the word meaning 'one hundred' are as above. The numeral snontu 'twenty' also means 'person'. The meaning for rimbi 'five' apparently related to 'hand. We are not able to elicit many of the higher numbers, the speakers are more used to using Indonesian or Wandamen rather that Dusner in counting, but the forms for the numerals forty, fifty, etc exist and were formerly in use. Note that the speaker produced the form snontu tori for the numerals 60, but this is the form that speaker used for the numeral 23. Dusner is a recently extinct language formerly spoken in Teluk Wondama regency, West Papua province, Indonesia.


 

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