Language name and locationː Iduna, Papua New Guinea [Refer to Ethnologue]
语言名称和分布地区: 依杜纳语, 巴布亚新几内亚米尔内湾省古迪納夫岛

 

1. saʔeyana

2. luhei

3. tohiye

4. laufuli

5. nimada fafalatamo (lit: 'hand one') 

6. nimada fafalatamo saʔeyana

7. nimada fafalatamo luhei

8. nimada fafalatamo tohiye

9. nimada fafalatamo laufuli

10. nimada fafalaluɡa (litː 'hands two')

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Ms. Joyce Huckett, SIL International, Papua New Guinea. May 8, 1994.
提供资的语言学家: Ms. Joyce Huckett. 1994 年 5 月 8 日.

 

Other comments: Iduna or Vivigani has a traditional counting expressed by descriptive phrases centering around the hands and feet, but I have never heard them used. Counting is done more easily in English in a transliterated form. Nowadays, only 1 to 5
are used. Iduna is spoken by about 6,000 speakers in Goodenough Island of Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea.


 

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