Language name and locationː Maiadomu, Papua New Guinea [Refer to Ethnologue]
言名称和分布地区迈亚多穆语, 巴布亚新几内亚米尔内湾省古迪納夫岛

 

1. tamoɣana

2. kaiuɣa

3. kaitonu

4. pulina / fulina

5. dimanina (litː 'one hand')

6. dima tamoɣa ( 5+ 1)

7. dima kailuɣa ( 5+ 2)

8. dima kaitonu ( 5+ 3)

9. dima pulina  ( 5+ 4)

10. ðauou tamoɣana (lit: 'one me')

11. ðauou kaiuɣa  

12. ðauou kaitonu  

13. ðauou kaitonu  

14. ðauou pulina  

15. ðauou dimanina  

16. ðauou dima tamoɣa  

17. ðauou dima kailuɣa

18. ðauou dima kaitonu

19. ðauou dima pulina  

20. ðauou luɣa  (lit: 'two me')

30. ðauou tonu (lit: 'three me')

40. ðauou pulina (lit: 'four me')

50. ðauou dimania (lit: 'five me')

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Ms. Karla Sligh Watt, SIL International, Papua New Guinea. January 22, 2005, June 19, 2011, October 4, 2011
提供资的语言家: Ms. Karla Sligh Watt, 2005 年 1 月 22 日, 2011 年 6 月 19 日.

   

Other comments: Maiadomu has a traditional quinary counting system up to twenty. However, nowadays, the people only keep the traditional numbers from 1 to 5. After 5, they used English numbers with phonological adaptation. Note that the traditional number for five 'dimanina' means 'one hand' but for ten is 'yauou tamoqana' means 'one me' literally, which is interesting because I wouldn’t have thought that would have appeared until 20—using both hands and both feet—but that is what they gave me. Maiadomu is spoken by about 900 speakers on Fergusson Island in Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea.


 

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