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

语言名称和分布地区: 北部奥内语 (奥内勒语 Onnele), 巴布亚新几内亚桑道恩省

1. wokɛrɑ ''one''

2. plɑinrɛ, plɑinrɛn, plɑinrɑnɛ ''two''

3. plɑinr-rikɛrɑ ''two-one''

4. plɑinrɛ (ka) plɑinrɛ ''two (and)-two''

5. plɑin-rikɛrɑ (ka) plɑinrɛ 'two-one (and)-two' / mɛw repo pikɑli 'hand-broken [fist]'

6. mɛw-pikɑli (ka) wokɛrɑ ''hand-broken [fist] (and) one''

7. mɛw-pikɑli (ka) plɑinrɛ ''hand-broken [fist] (and) two''

8. mɛw-pikɑli (ka) plɑinr-rikɛrɑ ''hand-broken [fist] (and) two and one'''

9. mɛw-pikɑli (ka) plɑinrɛ-plɑinrɛ  ''hand-broken [fist] (and) two (and) two''

10. mɛw-plɑinrɛ-pikɑli 'hand-two-broken [fist]', mɛw repo pikɑli,

     ilo wokɛrɑ 'tree one'

20. ilo plɑinrɛ 'tree two'

Linguist providing data and dateː Mr. Benjamin J. Pehrson through Mr. Ray Stegeman
SIL-International, Papua New Guinea, August 10, 2010
提供资料的语言学家: Mr. Benjamin J. Pehrson. 2010 年 8 月 10 日

Other comments: Onnele or Northern One speakers today only use numbers 1-3, and they borrow Tok Pisin words for all other numbers. Alternate forms for the number 2 are used by each of the Northern One dialects; however, the Goiniri dialect seems to prefer the first form, the Wolwale dialect seems to prefer the second, and the Romei and Barera dialects seem to prefer the third. An older Goiniri man identified an old way of counting that included a combination of the numbers 1-3 plus phrases for the number 5, ‘hand palm broken’, the number 10, ‘tree one’, and the number 20, ‘tree two’.