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

语言名称和分布地区: 库奥特语, 巴布亚新几内亚新爱尔兰岛西北部沿岸

1. ar (counting); namurit (adnominal)

21.  narain menəburualapien ɡa namurit

2. aras (counting); narain ( adnominal )

22.  narain menəburualapien ɡa narain

3. naien

23.  narain menəburualapien ɡa naien

4. nakala

24.  narain menəburualapien ɡa nakala

5. muanəm

25.  narain menəburualapien ɡa muanəm

6. ɡunəmur

26.  narain menəburualapien ɡa ɡunəmur

7. ɡamura

27.  narain menəburualapien ɡa ɡamura

8. ɡamin

28.  narain menəburualapien ɡa ɡamin

9. ɡamialə

29.  narain menəburualapien ɡa ɡamialə

10. menəburuan

30.  naienma menəburualap

11. menəburuan ɡa namurit

40.  nakala ma menəburualap

12. menəburuan ɡa narain

50.  muanəm ma menəburualap

13. menəburuan ɡa naien

60.  ɡunəmur ma menəburualap

14. menəburuan ɡa nakala

70.  ɡamura ma menəburualap

15. menəburuan ɡa muanəm

80.  ɡamin ma menəburualap

16. menəburuan ɡa ɡunəmur

90.  ɡamialə ma menəburualap

17. menəburuan ɡa ɡamura

100. menəburuan ma menəburualap

18. menəburuan ɡa ɡamin

19. menəburuan ɡa ɡamialə

20. narain menəburualapien

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Eva Lindström, Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University, Sweden, January 20, 2009.

提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Eva Lindström, 2009 年 1 月 20 日.

Other comments: Kuot is spoken by about 1,500 speakers in 10 villages, northwest coast, New Ireland province, Papua New Guinea. Kuot has a decimal system might be up to 2000. 200 is expressed as 'narain menəburualapien ma menəburualap', 1000 and 2000 might be expressed as 'menəburuan ma menəburualap ma menəburualap' and 'narain menəburuan ma menəburualap ma menəburualap', respectively. Forms ending in –pien are dual; the plural ends in –p. ɡa = ‘and’; ma is here akin to English ‘to’, ie tens of tens etc. – this is used with numerals above two (e.g. ‘two trees’ but ‘three of trees’). na is homonymous with a preposition ‘in, at’, and potentially there was originally a body counting system but no synchronic nouns correspond to –ien, -kala, etc. so this is unsubstantiated. There is also an amount of rhyming between forms below and above five so maybe at one time it was a quinary-based term system but it is not systematic enough to be more than a weak hypothesis.