Language name and locationː Sarasira, Papua New Guinea [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 萨拉西拉语 / 西拉西拉语 Sirasira, 巴布亚新几内亚莫内比省西北部马尔坎河谷内陆地区

1. taŋɡua     

2. iɾuk̚

3. iɾuk anɛ taŋɡua  ( 2 + 1 ) 

4. iɾuk̚ iɾuk̚  ( 2 + 2 )

5. iɾuk̚ iɾuk̚ taŋɡua ( 2 + 2 + 1)

   Data taken from: Sarasira/Sirasira [zsa], Sirasira village.

   Linguist providing data and date:  SIL-PNG Sociolinguistic Survey Team (Jed

   Carter, Katie Freedman, April Hope), 2016, via David Howard

1. taŋɡua

2. iɾikiɾuk

3. iɾikiɾuk anɛ maŋa*

4. iɾikiɾuk iɾikiɾuk ( 2 + 2 )   

5. iɾikiɾuk iɾikiɾuk anɛ maŋa*  

   Note:  *The word maŋa is a cognate of the Adzera [adz] indefinite pronoun maŋa(n) ‘another’. (D.H.)

   Data taken from: SIL-PNG Sociolinguistic Survey Team (Jed Carter, Katie Freedman,

   April Hope), 2016, via David Howard

Linguist providing data and dateː Mr. David Howard, SIL International, Papua New Guinea, March 12, 2021.
提供资料的语言学家: Mr. David Howard. 2021 年 3 月 12 日.

Other commentsː Sarasira or Sirasira has a binary counting system. Sarasira is spoken by about 600 speakers in the villages of Sarasira, Som, Pukpuk, Saseang, and Sisuk in Wantoat-Leron Rural LLG in Morobe province, Papua Guinea. Sarasira and Som share the same speech variety.