Language name and locationː Musar, Madang Province, PNG [Refer to Ethnologue]
语言名称和分布地区: 穆萨尔语, 巴布亚新几内亚马当省北部离岸几公里内陆地区

1. takolik  (SIL Word List (1975). Villageː Seremben

2. elep

3. elep otuku ( 2 + 1 )

4. elep elep ( 2 + 2 )

5. elep elep takolik ( 2 + 2 + 1 )

10. humba embe takolik (litː 'foot-hand-one')

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 15, Madang Province Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Lae, Papua New Guinea, 1991.
提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Glen A. Lean, 1991 年.

Other comments: Musar is spoken in seven villages (Z'graggen, 1975) situated a few kilometers inland from the coat, adjacent to the Bunanbun (Brem-speaking region, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. The only numbers data obtained fro Musar derive from an SIL word list completed at Seremben village in 1975. The Musar system has a basic numeral set ( 1,2); 3, 4, and 5 given as having the constructions '2+1',

'2 +2', and '2+2+1' respectively. Although 5 is given as a combination of numerals. 10, however, is given as 'humba embe takoilik' which, surprisingly, contains both a 'foot' morpheme 'humba' and a 'hand'; morpheme 'embe' (Arthur Capell's word list, 1951 / 52, p.204) and may be translated as 'foot-hand-one'. This implies that the system is a digit-tally one which possesses, in addition to a 2-cyclic, a 5-cycle (and a 20 or 'man' cycle as well). What is unusual (and required conformation) is that it would appear that 1 to 5 and tallied on the fingers of one hand and the 6 to 10 are tallied on the toes of one foot so that 10 is 'foot-hand-one'. If this is the case, it is the first example we have encountered which has this feature, the unusual procedure being that all fingers are tallied before the toes are (the latter being used to tally 11 to 20). Compared with the new data for the related Pamosu system provided by Mr. Liaw Yong Lam (2008), it seemed that the Musar people have used the Top Pisin after ten nowadays. New data needed to compare with the old one.