Language name and location: Kurrama, Australia [Refer to Ethnologue]

言名称和分布地区拉马语, 澳大利亚西部

 

1. kunyjirri [kuɲɟiri]            

2. kutharra [kut̪ara]

3. jarrkurti [ɟarkuʈi]

   more than 3 maru [maɻu]

   Noteː voiced and unvoiced is not contrastive for stops

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Miss Jessica Mathie (Senior Linguist, MA, University of Queensland ) and Mr. Peter M. Hill, Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre, South Hedland, WA, Australia, September 12, 2012.
供资料的语言学家: Miss Jessica Mathie and Mr. Peter M. Hill, 2012 年 9 月 12 日

 

Other comments: Traditionally, in Kurrama there were terms for one, two, and three, and then a general ‘many/lots/mob’ term. However, in recent times, with the influence of western concepts, compounding of these original terms can derive more numbers, such as ‘four’ which is represented by ‘two+two’.


 

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