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

言名称和分布地区普拉里语, 巴布亚新几内亚海湾省普拉里河三角洲地区

 

1. monoʔu (I'ai dialect )/ monoʔu (Koriki dialect)

2. reʔao (I'ai dialect ) / reʔako (Koriki dialect) / reʔereʔe (Kaimare dialect)

3. iʔairi  ("three") (I'ai dialect ) / kaupu ("small group") (Koriki dialect)

4. reʔao mo reʔao  (I'ai dialect ) / reʔako mo reʔako (2+2) (Koriki dialect)

  

Linguist providing data and dateː Mr. Robert Petterson, SIL Intentional,  Papua New Guinea, December 4, 2014

供资料的语言学家: Mr. Robert Petterson. 2017 年 12 月 4 日.

 

Other comments: Purari is spoken by about 7,000 speakers in Purari River delta, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea. The above data is taken from I'ai / Koriki dialects but Kaimare dialect has reʔereʔe for "two". Note that kaupu can also mean "small group", but iʔairi always means "three"; translation of phrase for 4 is "two and two"; usually 3 and over are borrowed from English. 

Consonants k m n p r v ʔ ; vowels: a e i o u; stress on penultimate syllable.


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