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

语言名称和分布地区: 伊迪语, 巴布亚新几内亚西部省南博语言区

1. d͡ʒɪn

2. kombla

3. komblad͡ʒɪn

4. tope

5. mənda

6. kæpɪn

7. ʈæŋg kʷɪmb

8. podær

9. ŋəm

10. ɖəl kʷɪp

11. ɖamana ŋəm

12. ɖamana podær

13. ɖamana ʈæŋg kʷɪmb

14. ɖamana kæpɪn

15. ɖamana mənda

16. ɖamana tope

17. ɖamana mɪdkɪn

18. ɖamana snædkal

19. ɖamana srəŋeta

20. ɖəlɖəl

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Dineke Schokkin, Department of Linguistics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.October 11, 2022.

提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Dineke Schokkin, 2022 年 10 月 11 日.

Other comments: Idi has a base-six counting system. Idi’s original numeral system is a body-tally system, and only runs until number 20. Numbers from the senary-based system from nearby Nen (Yam family) are also attested as loanwords. Idi is spoken by about 1,600 speakers villages in northwest of Agob, east of Nambo language areas, Western province, Papua New Guinea.

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

语言名称和分布地区: 伊迪语, 巴布亚新几内亚西部省南博语言区

1. zinbi   'z' = IPA [ ɟ͡ʝ ], a voiced palatal affricate 

2. komblebe

3. komblebe zinbi or komblebe a zinbi

4. komblebe a komblebe or komblekombloɡ

5. komble komble a zinbi

6. komble zin a komble zin or zinbi puth

7. zinbi puth zinbi kap   'th' = IPA [ ʈ͡ʂ ], a voiceless retroflex affricate 

8. zinbi puth komblebe kap

9. zinbi puth komblezin kap

10. zinbi puth komble a komble kap

11. zinbi puth komble komble a zinbi kap

12. komble puth

13. komble puth a zinbi kap

14. komble puth a komblebe kap

15. komble puth a komblezin kap

16. komble puth komble a kombe kap

17. komble puth komble komble a zinbi kap

18. komble zin puth

19. komble zin put a zinbi kap

20. kombble zin puth a komblebe kap

36. zinbi prta, 72. komblebe prta, 216. zinbi taromba

1296. zinbi damno, 7776. zinbi weremaka

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Kate Lindsey, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University, USA, informantː Wasang Baiio, November 9, 2012.

Phonetic transcription by Prof. Nicholas Evans, Department of Linguists, Australian National University, Australia, December 3, 2012.

提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Kate Lindsey, 2012 年 11 月 5 日.

Other comments: Idi has a base-six counting system. Zinbi [ ɟ͡ʝibi] means ‘one only'. This base-six system is connected with the counting of yams. In traditional yam harvesting celebrations, yams are collected in piles of six and counted in this way. This is written in the orthography created for Idi in July 2011. There is another system for counting in Idi – using body parts to count. This system is also applicable to counting of yams. This system is as follows, where damana means ‘the other side’. Also, Idi people using a body parts counting system up to 19 as belowː

  1. sarangeta, 2. klezuweimai or sentadakel, 3. matkin, 4. tope, 5. manda, 6. kepan,

  7. tengwemb, 8. poder, 9. n'am, 10. d'ai, 11. damama n'am, 12. damama poder,

  13. damama tengwemb, 14. damama kepan, 15. damama sarangeta,

  16. damama matkin, 17. damama klezuweimai or damama sentadakel,

  18. damama tope, 19, damama manda