Language
name and locationː Oya'oya,
Papua New Guinea
[Refer to
Ethnologue] |
1. eseɡa |
2. luaɡa |
3. faihona |
4. fati |
5. nima ya tutu (lit: 'hand fist')) |
10. nima luaɡa sa tutu (lit: 'two hands they fist') |
Linguist providing data and dateː Dr.
Bethwyn Evans,
College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University,
Canberra, Australia, 1997. |
Other comments: Oya'oya has a traditional quinary counting system. Now most of the people preference is to use English numbers. The simple numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 may still be used now. Oya'oya is spoken by about 380 speakers in Samarai-Murua district, Milne Bay province, Papua New Guinea. |
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