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

言名称和分布地区瓦查语, 巴布亚新几内亚莫罗贝省

 

1. tona

2. tavau

3. tavau to ('two and one')

4. tavau tavau ('two and two')

5. tavau tavau to ('two and two and one')

6. tavau tavau tavau ('two and two and two')

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Geoffrey P. Smith, Department of Language and Communication Studies, The University of Technology, Lae, Papua New Guinea. December 12, 1988.

Source: Smith, Geoffrey P. 1988. Morobe Counting systems, Pacific Linguistics, A-76, 1988, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
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的语言家: Dr. Geoffrey P. Smith, 1988 年 12 月 12 日.

 

Other comments: Kawacha or Kawatsa is another very small Angan Family language, being spoken by about 20 people, mainly in Katsiong refugee village north-eat of Menyamya. Morobe, Province, Papua New Guinea. A Kawatsa-speaking informant in Lae provided the data.

   Counting continued using only combinations of one and two. There was no attempt to tally on the hands. Lloyd (1973:549) gives the words for 'one' 'two' as uwa'na and huvaa'u respectively.


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