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

语言名称和分布地区: 诺穆语, 巴布亚新几内亚莫罗贝省

1. wetku

2. okop

3. okop so wetku ('two and one')

4. okop so okop ('two and two')

5. mete weitku  ('hand one')

10. mete okop ('hands two') 

15. mete karebot 

20. mete okop so okop ('man one') 

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: Numu is spoken by approximately 4,00 speakers in five villages around the Suparo River in the north-east of the Huon Peninsula, Morobe province, Papua New Guinea. The counting data were provided by a high school student. The meaning of the expression for 15 is not entirely clear, but appears to mean 'three hands'. Although three was translated as okop so wetku 'two and one', the word karebot used in the expression for 15 is very similar to the word for 'three' in other Western Huon Family languages, for example Burum, Komba and Yaknge (karambut) and Sialum (karamba). The informant did not seem to have a clear idea of the system, as for example the expression for 20 mete okop so okop was identical with that given for 12. However, it appears that the system has only two numerals and tallies on the hands to reach 20.