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

言名称和分布地区芬贝语, 巴布亚新几内亚西部省

 

1. sesafeng ('left little finger')

2. sesame ('left ring finger')

3. kama ('left middle finger')

4. dosso ('left index finger' )

5. hou  ('left thumb')

6. weyay ('left wrist')

7. dyo ('left forearm')

8. doumay ('left elbow')

9. dobey  ('left biceps')

10. ey ('left shoulder')

11. ɡobay ('left neck')

12. douwo ('left ear')

13. dihon ('left eye')

14. miou ('nose'), 15. meagaon ('mouth'), 16. eyo dihon ('right eye')

17. eyo douwo ('right ear'), 18. eyo ɡobay ('right neck')

19. eyo ey ('right shoulder'), 20. eyo dobey ('right biceps')
21. eyo doumay ('right elbow'), 22. eyo dyo ('right forearm')
23. eyo weyay ('right wrist'), 24. eyo hou ('right thumb')
25. eyo dosso  ('right index finger'), 26. eyo kama ('right middle finger')

27. eyo sesame ('right ring finger'), 28. eyo sesafeng ('right little finger')

 

Anthropologist providing data and dateː Ms. Anaïs Gerard, recorded December 2009 through Dr. Peter Dwyer, School of Geography, the University of Melbourne, Australia, February 3, 2016.

供资料的 人类学家: Ms. Anaïs Gerard 2016 年 2 月 3 日.

 

Other comments: Fembe is spoken by about 300 speakers in Western Province, Papua New Guinea, north of Nomad, Fembe territory adjoins Huli [to east] and Duna [to north]. This language has a body-tally system similar to that of Kubo.


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