Language name and location: Mubami, Papua New Guinea [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 穆巴米语, 巴布亚新几内亚西部省

1. dagemu

2. ukia

3. make'gago

4. kaukare

5. wau'ume silo

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Glen A. Lean, Department of Communications, Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Lae, Papua New Guinea, 1991.

Sourceː Glendon A. Lean. Counting systems of Papua New Guinea, volume 12, Western Province. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Lae, Papua New Guinea, 1991.

Source: SIL Word List (1974, recorded by Reesink). Villages: Parieme, Ugu, Kubiai.
提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Glen A. Lean, 1991 年.    

Other comments: Mubami is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. It goes by the names Dausame, Tao-Suamato, Tao-Suame, and Ta. The language is spoken by about 1,700 speakers in Diwami, Kubeai, Parieme, Paueme, Sogae, Ugu, and Waliho villages on the Guavi and Aramia rivers in Western Province, Papua New Guinea. Reesink compiled an SIL word list at Parieme, Ugu, and Kubiai villages in 1974 and a modified version of this also appears in his 1975 article on the Aramia River area languages. 

There are five distinct words for 1 to 5 and that for 5 itself contains "wau'umu", the word for 'thumb'. The number word for 10, 'ogiya silo' contains the word for 'upper arm;, 'ogiya' (the word for 'arm/hand' being 'pipini'). This somewhat slender amount of data tends to suggest, however, that the system may be a body-part tally one. Additional data are required in order to confirm this and to establish the cyclic pattern of the system.