Language name and location: Sikaritai, Papua province, Indonesia [Ref to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 西卡里泰语, 印度尼西亚巴布亚省北部湖区地区

1. kɡíɡ  / kɡiɡ *

2. bɛ̀tíá / betia *

3. bɛ̀tíákàkéd  (2+1) / betia ka kɡiɡ *

4. bɛ̀tíáka bɛ̀tíáka  (2+2) / betia ka betia *

5. bɛ̀tíáka bɛ̀tíákakɡiɡ  (2+2+1) / betia ka betia ka kɡiɡ *

6. bɛ̀tíákàkédkà  / betia ka betia ka betia *

Linguist providing data and dateː Mrs. Heljä Clouse. Summer Institute of Linguistics, Indonesia, 1989. Mr. Joseph Liem, Wycliffe Bible Translator, Indonesia. 12 June, 2008.

提供资料的语言学家: Mrs. Heljä Clouse, 1989 年. Mr. Joseph Liem. 2008 年 6 月 12 日.

Other comments: Sikaritai has only two numbers. Sikaritai is spoken by about 2,000 speakers in Haya, Iri, and Sikari villages in Lakes plain area, Papua province, Indonesia. Usually people in the village only use number up to 3. More than that, they use Indonesian. New data by Liem are with an asterisk mark. Please note that the ''kɡ'' = k followed by a 'pharyngeal fricative'. Sikaritai has four tones:  v́ = high, v̀ = low. '= stress mark.