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

语言名称和分布地区: 科奈语, 巴布亚新几内亚西部省

1. sesafei (''little finger'')  

2. sesama ("ring finger")

3. koma ("middle finger")

4. doso͡u   ("index finger")

5. hou  ("thumb")

6. walai ("wrist")

7. dio ("lower arm")

8. dimaa ("elbow")

9. dese  ("upper arm")

10. yetou ("shoulder")

11. kehe ("ear")

12. diho ("ear")

13. mukuo ("nose")

14. moɡou ("mouth")

15. ''the other hand": doboɡo̠͡u̠ to

Linguist providing data and dateː Ms. Britten Årsjö, MA, Linguistics, SIL-PNG, Papua New Guinea through through Dr. Peter Dwyer, School of Geography, the University of Melbourne, Australia, August 2, 2016.

提供资料的语言学家: Ms. Britten Årsjö, 2016 年 8 月 2 日.

Other comments: Konai is spoken by about 600 speakers in Western Province, Papua New Guinea. The Konai people use three kinds of counting systemsː 1). a symmetrical body-part tally system based on 14; 2). a traditional 2-cycle system and 3).  a modern system with English word + keɡe.

Cardinal Numbers ( 2-cycle system)ː 1. tano̠͡u , 2. bolo̠u, 3. komadia, 4. bolo̠u bolo̠u ( 2 + 2 )

Modern Systemː 

1. tano̠͡u , 2. bolo̠u, 3. komadia, 4. bolo̠u bolo̠u ( 2 + 2 ), 5. houyosi, > 5. English word + keɡe 

    The numerals listed in the Table serve as ordinals but may be modified, by adding the suffixes ‐yosi or ‐dia together with the demonstrative verb kege (“be like that”), to serve as cardinals.

    Note that the phonemic and orthography inventoryː

     Orthography o̠͡u=IPA [o], e=IPA [ɛ], o=IPA [ɔ], y=IPA [j]

    There is contrast between the phoneme /o/ <o͡u > and the diphthong /ou/ <oʊ>, e.g. tobo͡u 'say’ and tobou ‘said’.

Referencesː

   Årsjö, Britten (2016) Konai grammar sketch. Unpublished manuscript.

   Dwyer, P. D. and M. Minnegal (2016) Counting systems of the Strickland-Bosavi

   language families, Papua New Guinea. Language and Linguistics in Melanesia 34(1):

   1-36. [See pp. 18-20]