Language
name and locationː Koro,
Manus,
Papua New Guinea
[Ref toː
Ethnologue] |
1. tih * |
21. ruŋul e ti |
2. moruwah |
22. ruŋul e rua |
3. matalah |
23. ruŋul e tala |
4. mahahu |
24. ruŋul e hahu |
5. malimah (lit: 'hand') |
25. ruŋul e lima |
6. mawonoh |
26. ruŋul e wono |
7. mandotalah (10 - 3) |
27. ruŋul e ndotala |
8. mandoruwah (10 - 2) |
28. ruŋul e ndorua |
9. mandotih (10 - 1) |
29. ruŋul e ndoti |
10. masoŋul |
30. matuluŋul |
11. soŋul e ti |
40. mahaŋul |
12. soŋul e rua |
50. malimiŋul |
13. soŋul e tala |
60. maonoŋul |
14. soŋul e hahu |
70. mandotuluŋul |
15. soŋul e lima |
80. mandoruŋul |
16. soŋul e wono |
90. (mo)ndotoŋul |
17. soŋul e ndotala |
100. masaŋat |
18. soŋul e ndorua |
200. moruŋat |
19. soŋul e ndoti |
1000. patih |
20. moruŋul |
|
Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Jessica Cleary-Kemp,
Department of
Linguistics, University of California at Berkeley, USA. December 7,
2010,
December 6, 2012, April 25, 2014. |
Other comments: Koro
has a typical "Manus type"
Austronesian language decimal counting
system with special structure for numerals 6 to 9.
The data was taken from Papitalai dialect of
the Koro language. It seems the number 6
is a loanword
from Polynesian language. I have realized on my last
field trip that Papitalai is not a separate language from Koro, but is
rather just a dialect of Koro. I'm not aware of any differences in the
numeral systems of different Koro dialects, but there may be some that I
don't know about. For now you could list the
data I gave you for Papitalai as being Koro (Papitalai dialect). Note that the numbers 90 and 1000 are taken from Dr. Glennon A.
Lean's old data in orthographic spelling twenty years ago. |
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