Language name and location: Gunwinggu, Australia [Refer to Ethnologue]

言名称和分布地区贡温古语, 澳大利亚北部

 

1. -kudji 'one' [-ɡʊɟi] * 

2. bokenh 'two' [bɔɡenʔ] 

3. danjbik 'three' [daɲbik]

4. kunbidbakmeng (litː hand broken) *

5. kunbidkudji (litː one hand)

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Murray Garde, School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia & the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, October 9, 2012.

供资料的语言学家: Dr. Murray Garde, 2012 年 10 月 9 日.

 

Other comments: Gunwinggu or Biniji Gunwok has only three words for numbers. Note that the hyphen indicates the necessity for one of the four noun class prefixes na-, ngal-, man-, kun-. There are more recent neologisms for 4 and 5ː kunbidbakmeng, literally 'hand broken'; kunbidkudji, literally 'one hand'.


 

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