Language
name and location:
Mbore,
Papua
New
Guinea
[Ref. to
Ethnologue ] |
1. kabe |
2. mbuni |
3. mbo:naka (2 +1) |
4. pa:war |
5. parmbe (lit: ''one hand") |
10. pami (lit: ''two hands'') |
Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Glen A. Lean, Department of
Communications, Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Lae, Papua
New Guinea, 1991. |
Other comments: Gamei or Mbore is spoken in eight villages at (Z'graggen, 1975, p.33), had a total population 1,188 (1980). The villages are situated in the extreme north of the Madang Province near the border with the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. The above data taken from Arthur Capell (1955 / 52. p.135) whose study of the languages of the Bogia district, based on filed work carried out in 1949. Capell indicates that 'par" is 'hand', or 'arm' and the forms the root of 5, 'one hand', and 10, 'two hands'. The basic numeral set appears to be (1, 2, 4 ) and 3 appears to have a '2 +1" construction. These data suggest that the system is a digit-tally one with a (2, 5) cyclic pattern. New data needed to compare with the old one. |
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