Language name and locationː Pukapuka, Cook Islands [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 普卡普卡语, 太平洋中南部科克群岛北部之普卡普卡群岛

1. taði, tai

21. lualua ma tai

2. lua

22. lualua ma lua

3. tolu

23. lualua ma tolu

4. waː

24. lualua ma waː

5. lima

25. lualua ma lima

6. ono

26. lualua ma ono

7. witu

27. lualua ma witu

8. valu

28. lualua ma valu

9. iva

29. lualua ma iva

10. lauŋaulu / aŋaulu [archaic] *

     ðeːpulupulu 'ten coconuts (counted

     in pairs)' tinoangulu

30. lautolu, toluŋaulu ( Cook Is. Maori )

11. lauŋaulu ma tai

40. lauwaː, waːŋaulu  ( Cook Is. Maori )

12. lauŋaulu ma lua

50. laulima, limaŋaulu ( Cook Is. Maori )

13. lauŋaulu ma tolu

60. lauono, onoŋaulu ( Cook Is. Maori )

14. lauŋaulu ma waː

70. lauwitu, wituŋaulu ( Cook Is. Maori )

15. lauŋaulu ma lima

80. lauvalu, valuŋaulu ( Cook Is. Maori )

16. lauŋaulu ma ono

90. lauiva, ivaŋaulu ( Cook Is. Maori )

17. lauŋaulu ma witu

100. lau, aːnele ( English )

18. lauŋaulu ma valu

200. lualau, lua aːnele

19. lauŋaulu ma iva

1000. mano

20. lualua, luaŋaulu ( Cook Is. Maori)

2000. lua mano

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Mary Salisbury, Massey University at Albany, Auckland, New Zealand. June, 14, 2006, July 6, 2015.

提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Mary Salisbury, 2006 年 6 月 14 日. 2015 年 7 月 6 日.

Other comments: There are two sets of higher numbers from 20 to 90 in Pukapuka; the first one is traditional and the second is loanwords from Cook Islands Maori. Hundred is a loanword from English. Numerals higher than a thousand: ŋaulu tini, one hundred thousand maːtinitini 'countless', maːkelekele 'countless as the sand', ŋini maŋone 'unable to be counted', yeː 'infinity', 'uncountable'

   Pukapukan also has a binary system or counting in pairs (of coconuts) and a system of counting in tens using the prefix tino- 'body' (for people and tuna fish) and there are various other counting classifiers for different objects in a decimal system, at least historically. Some of the forms look like the Penryhn forms e.g. yepulupulu 'ten (pairs of coconuts)'.

Counting coconuts:

1. taði tai awaːniu 'one pair of coconuts', lua awaːniu '2 pairs of coconuts',

3. tolu awaːniu '3 pairs of coconuts', waː awaːniu '4 pairs of coconuts',

5. ðeːpulupulu 'ten coconuts' i.e. 5 pairs, ono awaːniu '6 pairs of coconuts',

6. ono awaːniu '6 pairs of coconuts', 7. witu awaːniu '7 pairs of coconuts',

8. valu awaːniu '8 pairs of coconuts', 9. 9. iva awaːniu '9 pairs of coconuts',

22. 22. ðaea ma taði, 24. ðaea ma lua, 26. aea ma tolu, 28. ðaea ma wa:

There are also numeral classifiers in Pukapuka: mata- for counting tubers of taro or pulaka  e.g. mata-a-ngaulu 10 tubers, mata-lua 20 tubers kau- for counting fruit, round objects, oven stones, pandanus leaves and plaited wall mats.e.g. kau-a-ngaulu 10 [stones], kau-lima 50. ua- counting shellfish, tua- counting crabs,
yeke- counting canoe seats, tino- counting tens of humans and bonito fish tino-lua '20 people'

Note that the Pukapukan data uses V: for vowel length instead of macrons over the vowels, and velar nasal IPA symbol instead of <ng> but uses <y>, the orthographic symbol, instead of /ð/ or /ð^j /,its phonetic value. Pukapuka is spoken by about 3,000 speakers in Cook Islands, Rarotonga and New Zealand.