Language name and location: Moi, West Papua, Indonesia [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 莫伊语, 印度尼西亚西巴布亚省鸟头半岛西部萨拉瓦蒂岛

1. meele

21. nee-meele-w-aaɡi-nee-wi-nin-meele

2. aali

22.  

3. tooluk  <Austronesian

23.  

4. fak      <Austronesian

24.  

5. maafuk <Austronesian

25.  

6. matanan-meele / maftaanim (5+1)

26. nee-meele-w-aaɡi-n.wi-nin-ma.-meele

7. matanan-aali     (5+2)

27.  

8. matanan-tooluk (5+3)

28.  

9. matanan-fak      (5+4)

29. 

10. matanan-maaful

30. nee-meele-w-aaɡi-nee-wi-nin-fee

11. fee-timaali-meele

40. nee-aali-y-iiɡi

12. fee-timaali-aali

50. nee-aali-y-iiɡi-nee-tooluk-wi-nin-fee

13. fee-timaali-tooluk

60. nee-tooluk-y-iiɡi

14. fee-timaali-fak

70. nee-tooluk-y-iiɡi-nee-fak-wi-nin-fee

15. fee-timaali-maafuk

80. nee-fak-y-iiɡi

16. fee-timaali-maafuk-matanan-meele

90. nee-fak-y-iiɡi-nee-maafuk-wi-nin-fee

17. fee-timaali-maafuk-matanan-aali

100. nee-maafuk-y-iiɡi or witin meel

18. fee-timaali-maafuk-matanan-tooluk

200. witin aali

19. fee-timaali-maafuk-matanan-fak

1000. witin fee (100 x 10)

20. nee-meele-w-aaɡi *

Linguists providing data and dateː Dr. Ger Reesink, Radboud University, Numegen, Netherlands, April 13, 2010.

提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Ger Reesink, 2010 年 4 月 13 日.

Other comments: The Moi numeral system is based on counting fingers and toes. In earlier days, in counting, one started with the little finger of the left hand, ending with the thumb of the right hand, which represents number ten. Then, both hands were clapped together and at the same time fee was uttered. To continue counting, the toes were used to count up to twenty; starting with the little toe of the left foot, ending at the big toe of the right foot. The custom to use one's toes for counting is almost abandoned. Also, nowadays many Moi people use the Indonesian numerals in daily speech. An exception to this is the counting of kain timur (cloths which form the dowry), which is always done in Moi. A reason for this might be that the kain timur complex is a phenomenon that is deeply rooted in the Moi culture. The numerals from six onwards are morphologically complex. The numbers six up to and including ten have an element ma, which, very likely, is derived form maafuk 'five'. The meaning of the (possible) constituents taanim in the numeral six, tanan in the numerals six up to and including ten, and timaali in the numerals eleven up to and including nineteen, could not be established. For the number twenty: nee-meele-w-aagi person-one-3S:M-die:S'One person dead' (= twenty). For the numbers from twenty one up to and including thirty nine the equivalent of 'One person dead and a second person's n finger'(s)' are used. Some examples are given: nee-meele-w-aagi-nee-aali-wi-nin-meele, person-one-3S:M-die:S-person-two-3S:M-finger-one, 'One person dead [and] a second person's finger' (= twenty one), nee-meele-w-aagi-nee-aali-wi-nin-matanan-meele, person-one-3S:M-die:S-person-two-3S:M-finger-?-one, 'One person dead [and] a second person's six fingers' (= twenty six), nee-meele-w-aagi-nee-aali-wi-nin-fee, person-one-3S:M-die:S-person-two-3S:M-finger-ten, 'One person dead [and] a second person's ten fingers' (= thirty). The numeral forty is formed in accordance with the expression for twenty: nee-aali-y-iigi, person-two-3P:H-die:P, Two persons dead' (= forty). Other numerals are formed in the same way as is discussed above. Multiples of ten up to and including hundred are:

   50. nee-aali-y-iigi-nee-tooluk-wi-nin-fee, 60.  nee-tooluk-y-iigi,
   70. nee-tooluk-y-iigi-nee-fak-wi-nin-fee, 80.   nee-fak-y-iigi,

   90. nee-fak-y-iigi-nee-maafuk-wi-nin-fee, 100  nee-maafuk-y-iigi (in listing)
      or witin meele (in isolation)

    Multiples of hundred are formed with witin. Some multiples of hundred up to

     and including thousand are: 200. witin aali, 300. witin tooluk,
    600. witin matanan meele, 1000. witin fee   

Language name and location: Moi, West Papua, Indonesia [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 莫伊语, 印度尼西亚西巴布亚省鸟头半岛西部萨拉瓦蒂岛

1. mele

21.  

2. ali

22.  

3. tuluk  <Austronesian

23.  

4. fak    <Austronesian

24.  

5. mafuk <Austronesian 

25.  

6. mafutani mele    (5 + 1)

26.  

7. mafwatani ali     (5 + 2)

27.  

8. mafwatani tuluk (5 + 3)

28.  

9. mafwatani fat     (5 + 4)

29. 

10. fe

30. 

11. 

40.  

12. 

50.  

13.

60.  

14. 

70.  

15. 

80. 

16. 

90.  

17. 

100. 

18.  

200. 

19. 

1000. 

20. 

2000. 

Linguist providing data and dateː Mrs. Heljä Clouse, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Indonesia, May 30, 1989.

提供资料的语言学家: Mrs. Heljä Clouse, 1989 年 5 月 30 日

Other comments: Moi is spoken by about 5,000 speakers in several villages on west Bird’s Head; Salawati island, Sorong city east and southeast, West Papua province, Indonesia. Moi numbers from three onwards are borrowed from Austronesian.