Language name and location: Foi, Papua New Guinea [Refer to Ethnologue]
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1. mena-gi 'little finger' |
21. i 'eye' |
2. ha-gi or hage 'ring finger' |
22. bobo 'cheekbone' |
3. -gi 'middle finger' |
23. kia 'ear' |
4. tu’ubu 'index finger' |
24. fufu 'upper neck' |
5. kaba 'thumb' |
25. heno-go 'lower neck' |
6. dama or tama 'palm' |
26. keno 'collarbone area' |
7. bunagi or bonagi 'wrist' |
27. ki 'shoulder' |
8. kwebo 'forearm' |
28. ame-ni 'upper middle arm' |
9. karo-habo 'inside elbow' |
29. karo-habo 'inside elbow' |
10. amene or ame-ni upper middle arm' |
30. kwebo 'forearm' |
11. ki 'shoulder' |
31. bona-gi 'wrist' |
12. keno 'collarbone area', |
32. tama 'palm' |
13. heno-go 'lower neck' |
33. kaba thumb' |
14. fufu 'upper neck' |
34. tugu-bu 'index finger' |
15. kia 'ear' |
35. i-gi 'middle finger' |
16. bobo 'cheekbone' |
36. ha-gi 'ring finger' |
17. i 'eye' |
37. mena-gi 'little finger' |
18. to 'side of nose' |
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19. kisi 'ridge of nose' |
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20. to 'side of nose' |
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Linguist providing data and dateː Mr. Mark Rosenfelder, The Author of the website "Numbers from 1 to 10 in over 5000 languages", Chicago, USA, October 7 2023. 提供资料的语言学家: Mr. Mark Rosenfelder, 2023 年 10 月 7 日. |
Other comments: Foi, also known as Foe or Mubi River, is one of the two East Kutubuan languages of the Trans-New Guinea family spoken along Lake Kutubu and Mubi River, located in the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. Dialects of Foi are Ifigi, Kafa, Kutubu, Mubi. The estimated number of Foi speakers as of 2015 is between 6,000 and 8,000.
Foi adopts the body-part
counting system. This feature can also be found in approximately 60
Trans-New Guinea Languages such as Fasu and Oksapmin. |
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