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

语言名称和分布地区: 东部克瓦语 (东部克瓦皮语), 巴布亚新几内亚南部高地省

 

1. kekali (lit: ''little finger'')

2. kekali yame (lit: ''ring finger'')

3. anda ki (lit: ''middle finger'')

4. malaa (lit: ''index finger'')

5. su (lit: ''thumb'')

6. su mindi (lit: ''flesh of the thumb'')
7. waraa (lit: ''palm'')
8. kerepo (lit: ''wrist'')
9. palaɡi (lit: ''carpals'')
10. noe   (lit: ''radius'')
11. noae re luambu (lit: ''ulna / small arm'')
12. komaa (lit: ''above elbow'')
13. winya ropaa (litː ''lower upper arm'')
14. ali ropaa (lit: ''upper upper arm'')
15. pasaa (litː ''shoulder'')
16. pasaa kuli (lit: ''shoulder bone'')
17. pasaa mindi (lit: ''shoulder muscle'')
18. maa (lit: ''neck'')
19. yaɡaa (lit: ''jaw'')
20. kale ( lit: ''ear'')
21. pae (lit: ''cheek'')
22. le (lit: ''eye'')
23. paki (lit: ''inside corner of eye'')
24. rikaa (lit: ''between eyes'')
25 - 47.  the body parts are repeated in reverse order and by adding menda ''another''.

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Karl J. Franklin, SIL International, USA, March 29, 2010.

提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Karl J. Franklin. 2010 年 3 月 29 日.

 

Other comments: The East Kewa or East Kewapi is spoken by 50,000 speakers in
Ialibu and Kagua districts, Southern Highlands province, Papua New Guinea. The East Kewa has a tally counting system based on 24.

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