Language name and locationː Hewa, Papua New Guinea [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 赫瓦语, 巴布亚新几内亚桑道恩省, 恩加省及赫拉省

1. ama / to'pakale (lit: ''little finger'')

21.  idoraɡua

2. yeiba, yia (lit: ''ringer finger'')

22.  idomalune

3. yumila (lit: ''middle finger'')

23.  idoɡele

4. ɡulua, kulua (lit: ''index finger'')

24.  idoɡulua

5. ɡele, keila  (lit: ''thumb'')

25.  idoyumila

6. maluene (lit: ''wrist' )

26.  idoyeiba

7. raɡua (lit: ? )

27.  idoama

8. alone (lit: ?)

9. ababene (lit: ?)

10. alei  (lit: 'shoulder')

11. loa (lit: ?)

12. benia (lit: ''ear'')

13. niɡei (lit: ''eye'')

14. abi (lit: ''nose'')

15. idoniɡei 

16. idobenia

17. idoloa

18. idoalei

19. idoababene

20. idoalone

Linguist providing data and dateː Mr. Paul Vollrath, SIL International-Papua New Guinea, June 17, 2011.

提供资料的语言学家: Mr. Paul Vollrat, 2011 年 6 月 17 日.

Other comments: Hewa is spoken by approximately 5,000 speakers in Enga province, Sandaun province, Hela province, Papua New Guinea. Hewa has a 27-cycle body-part tally counting system. Tallying begins on the little finger of the one hand and proceeds along the fingers, in order, until the thumb is reached at a tally of 5. The wrist is the sixth tally-point and the shoulder is the tenth, the intermediate tally-points being uncertain (probably these are 7: lower arm, 8: elbow, 9: upper arm). The ear and eye are, respectively, the 12th and 13th tally-points. The cycle mid-point is tallied on the nose on the body's vertical axis of symmetry. The 15th and 16th tally-points are, respectively, the other eye and other ear. Tallying then presumably proceeds in reverse order through the sequence of body-parts which are the symmetrical counterparts of those in the first half-cycle, ending with a tally of 27 on the little finger of the other hand.