Language name and locationː Narak, Papua New Guinea [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 纳拉克语, 巴布亚新几内亚西高地省

1. simane

2. soka

3. sokroman ~ sokasa

4. sokakin sokakin  (2+2)~ sokasa simane (3+1)

5. angulo kora pora ~  anglo mengi korakle ('hand')

10. angulo mengi kork ar ~ anglo mengi bolbol

20. anglo kin kako mengi bolbol ('the hands and feet (of one man)')

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 9, Western Highlands and Simbu Provinces. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Lae, Papua New Guinea, 1991.

Sources:  

A. SIL Word List (1976). Village: Baura.

B. Data: 1 CSQ. Village: Tsingoropa.

提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Glen A. Lean, 1991 年.    

Other comments: Narak is spoken by about 3,400 speakers in the north-east of the Western Highlands Province immediately to the south of the Maring-speaking region, Papua New Guinea. The only number data obtained for Narak derive from an SIL word list com at Baura village in 1976 and from one CSQ. 

The Narak system has a basic numeral set (1,2); both sets of data indicate t contains a 2- morpheme and has an implied '2+1' construction. The SIL data give a '2+2' construction while the CSQ informant has '3+1', i.e. '(2+1)+1'. The n words for both 5 and 10 contain a 'hand' morpheme 'angulo' ('anglo'). The informant gives 20 as containing both a 'hand' and a 'foot' (or 'leg') morpheme we may construe as having the sense of 'the hands and feet (of one man)'. The thus appears to be a digit-tally one with a (2, 5) or (2, 5, 20) cyclic pattern.