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

语言名称和分布地区: 奥迪艾语 (布萨语Busa, 乌里艾语), 巴布亚新几内亚桑道恩省

1. otutu

21.  we tina otutu

2. sinana

22.  we tina sinana

3. onana

23.  we tina onana

4. ayete

24.  we tina ayete

5. yubenaeti

25.  we tina yubenaeti

6. dita otu (lit: 'one of the other hand')

26.  we tina dita otu

7. dita sinana

27.  we tina dita sinana

8. dita onana

28.  we tina dita onana

9. dita ayete

29.  we tina dita ayete

10. wo otu

30.  wo ona

11. we otutu

40.  wo ayete

12. we sinana

50.  wo yubenaeti

13. we onana

60.  wo dita otu

14. we ayete

70.  wo dita sinana

15. we yubenaeti

80.  wo dita onana

16. we otu ditaotu

90.  wo dita ayete

17. we otu dita sinana

100. wo wewe

18. we otu dita onana

200. sinanatuma wewe

19. we otu dita ayete

1000. otu owewe

20. wo otina 

2000. sinana owewe

Linguist providing data and dateː Ms. Lisa Kappeler, NTM (New Tribes Mission), Papua

New Guinea. June 25, 2011.

提供资料的语言学家: Ms. Lisa Kappeler, 2011 年 6 月 25 日.

Other comments: Odiai or Uriay or Busa has a quinary system. 10 – one zero. 11 – one zero (plus) one, 20 – two, one zero (2 x 10), 100 – zero, zero (two zeroes), 200 – second zero, zero, 1000 – one zero, zero, zero. Basically the ‘wo’ in two digit numbers basically means ‘0’. Then as you get to three digit numbers, the ‘wo’ becomes ‘we’, to indicate the next level up. They adjust the ‘we’ as the numbers continue to rise to indicate how many zeroes are placed after the initial number. ‘ayete matuwe’=40,000 [four, four zeroes] or ‘yubenaeti matumatuwe’ means 500,000 where ‘matumatuwe’ now means literally ‘five zeroes’. This is the ancestral way of counting. Nowadays they tend to only use the numbers one through five and move to the Melanesian Pidgin system of counting – 6-bela, 7-bela, etc. The symbols we use phonemically are: a, b, d, e, f, i, k, m, n, o, r, s, t, u, w, y, ay, ey, aw, ow, oy, aey (glides). Odial is spoken by about 240 speakers in 3 villages, north of Upper Sepik river, Amanab district,  Sandaun province, Papua New Guinea.

Odiai Phonemic Chart:

Source: adapted from ''Manual of articulatory phonetics 'by William A. Smalley

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