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Language
name and locationː Gedaged,
Papua New Guinea
[Refer to
Ethnologue] |
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1. taimon |
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2. al̥u |
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3. tol |
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4. pal |
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5. niman ta (< nima < lima 'hand one') |
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10. niman al̥u ( lit: 'hands two' ) |
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Linguist providing data and dateː Prof. Malcolm Ross, Department of
Linguistics, |
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Other comments: Gedaged has a traditional quinary counting system based on hands and body parts. Note: (in 2 and 10, the middle letter of /al̥u/ is <l> with a circle beneath it, indicating a voiceless lateral). Nowadays the Gedaged people use English numerals after five. Gedaged is an Austronesian language spoken by about 7000 people in coastal villages and on islands in Astrolabe Bay, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. |
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Language
name and locationː Gedaged,
Papua New Guinea
[Refer to
Ethnologue] |
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1. taimon |
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2. azu |
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3. tol |
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4. pal |
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5. niman ta (< nima < lima 'hand one') |
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6. niman aenta tikun ta ( 5 + 1 ) |
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7. niman aenta tikun azu ( 5 + 2 ) |
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8. niman aenta tikun tol ( 5 + 3 ) |
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9. niman aenta tikun pal ( 5 + 4 ) |
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10. niman azu ( lit: 'hands two' ) |
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11. nien kokun ta |
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12. nien kokun azu |
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13. nien kokun tol |
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14. nien kokun pal |
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15. nien azu nien ta (lit: 'hands two and one hand') |
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16. nien aenta kokun ta |
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17. nien aenta kokun azu |
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18. nien aenta kokun tol |
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19. nien aenta kokun pal |
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20. fun dayun * |
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Linguist providing data and dateː SIL-Papua New Guinea, 1989. 提供资料的语言学家: SIL-Papua New Guinea, 1989 年. |
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Other comments: Gedaged has a traditional quinary counting system based on hands and body parts, the etymology for the word for twenty is unknown. Nowadays the Gedaged people use English numerals after five. |
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