Language name and locationː Magori, Papua New Guinea [Refer to Ethnologue]
言名称和分布地区马戈里语, 巴布亚新几内亚中部省南部海边两个小村

 

1. ana / anaoni

21.  nanau buau ana

2. buau

22.  nanau buau buau

3. aiteri / aiseri (from Magi ?)

23.  nanau buau aiseri

4. vati / vasi

24.  nanau buau vasi

5. ima (lit: 'hand')

25.  nanau buau ima

6. ima reria ana   ( 5 + 1 )

26.  nanau buau ima reria ana

7. ima reia buau  ( 5 + 2 )

27.  nanau buau ima reria buau

8. ima reria aiteri ( 5 + 3 )

28.  nanau buau ima reria aiteri

9. ima reria vati   ( 5 + 4 )

29.  nanau buau ima reria vasi

10. nanau ana ('nanau' < Magi)

30.  nanau aiseri

11. nanau ana ana

40.  nanau vasi

12. nanau ana buau

50.  nanau ima

13. nanau ana aiseri

60.  nanau ima reria ana

14. nanau ana vasi

70.  nanau ima reria buau

15. nanau ana ima

80.  nanau ima reria aiseri

16. nanau ana ima reria ana

90.  nanau ima reria vasi

17. nanau ana ima reria buau

100. wuwuru ana ('wuwuru' < Magi)

18. nanau ana ima reria aiseri

200. wuwuru buau 

19. nanau ana ima reria vasi

1000. wuwuru ima buau

20. nanau buau

2000. wuwuru ima vasi

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Tom E. Dutton, Department of linguistics, The
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, June 8, 1988. Additional information from 11 to 2000 by Mr. Edmund O. Maino and Mr. Oaeke Manino of Magori village, July 18, 1997.
提供资的语言家: Dr. Tom E. Dutton, 1988 年 6 月 8 日.

 

Other comments: Magori has a quinary counting system. Magori number words certainly do not appear to be typically Austronesian and has been strongly influenced by the Magi, a Papuan language. Numeral 5 is the word for 'hand', and the existence of a distinct numerals 10, 'nanau', conceivably borrowed from Magi. The numeral, 3, 'aiseri' may have been borrowed from Magi or one of the Mailuan family languages. Magori is an endangered Austronesian languages. Magori is a nearly extinct Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea that has been strongly restructured through contact with neighboring Papuan languages, perhaps Mailu, which the Magori people speak fluently today. The restructuring was so extensive that Magori's family was long in doubt; it was finally established by Dutton in 1976. Magi in turn borrowed large numbers of Austronesian words, either from Magori or its extinct Oumic relatives.


 

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