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

语言名称和分布地区: 门基普语, 巴布亚新几内亚莫罗贝省

1. kubuɡaŋ

2. lifet

3. lifet kubuɡaŋ or lifetniŋ

4. lifet yaŋ lifet yaŋ  ('two and two')

5. lifet lifet kubuɡaŋ ('two and two and one')

6. kafoŋfa kubuɡaŋ ('other hand one')

10. wa tarerak ('both (hands) together')

11. kafoŋ wa tarerak kadak kubuɡaŋ ('hands together, foot one')

20. kadak watarerak ('legs finished')

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Geoffrey P. Smith, Department of Language and Communication Studies, The University of Technology, Lae, Papua New Guinea. December 12, 1988.

Source: Smith, Geoffrey P. 1988. Morobe Counting systems, Pacific Linguistics, A-76, 1988, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Geoffrey P. Smith, 1988 年 12 月 12 日.

Other comments: Munkip is spoken by only 12 speakers at Munkip village in the Erap Valley, south of Saruwaged range, Morobe province, Papua New Guinea. The counting data were obtained from village informants. Munkip has a body-tally system. There are only two numeral words, unless the expression for three lifetning is seen as a distinct numeral in its own right. It certainly appears to be derived from 'two one'. Tallying proceeds on the hands and feet to make a total of 20.