Language name and locationː Sop, Papua New Guinea  [Refer to Ethnologue]
言名称和分布地区索普语 (索布语 Sob), 巴布亚新几内亚马当省拉穆河谷东北部

 

1. ɡɯɾena (lit: pinky finger)

21. akɯɾe bede foɡo ɡɯɾena

2. akɯɾe (lit: ring finger)

22. akɯɾe bede foɡo akɯɾe

3. kɯi (lit: middle finger)

23. akɯɾe bede foɡo kɯi

4. doɡob (lit: index finger)

24. akɯɾe bede foɡo doɡob

5. taba (lit thumb)

25. akɯɾe bede foɡo taba

6. kubete (lit: palm of hand)

26. akɯɾe bede foɡo kubete

7. nonob

27. akɯɾe bede foɡo nonob

8. dɯm

28. akɯɾe bede foɡo dɯm

9. dam

29. akɯɾe bede foɡo dam

10. foɡo (lit: shoulder)

30. kɯi bede foɡo 

11. ɡɯɾena bede foɡo ɡɯɾena

40. doɡob tuɡ bede foɡo 

12. ɡɯɾena bede foɡo akɯɾe

50. taba tuɡ bede foɡo 

13. ɡɯɾena bede foɡo kɯi

60. kubete tuɡ bede foɡo 

14. ɡɯɾena bede foɡo doɡob

70. nonob tuɡ bede foɡo 

15. ɡɯɾena bede foɡo taba

80. dɯm tuɡ bede foɡo

16. ɡɯɾena bede foɡo kubete

90. dam tuɡ bede foɡo

17. ɡɯɾena bede foɡo nonob

100. foɡo tuɡ bede foɡo     

18. ɡɯɾena bede foɡo dɯm

 

19. ɡɯɾena bede foɡo dam

 

20. akɯɾe bede foɡo

 

  

Linguist providing data and dateː Mr. Ryan Harty, Pioneer Bible Translators, Papua New Guinea, September 27, 2021
提供资的语言: Mr. Ryan Harty, 2021 年 9 月 27 日.

 

Other comments: Sob or Sop is spoken by approximately 2,000 speakers in Usino Bundi district, northeast of Ramu valley, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. Sob has a digit-tally system up to 100. The data is taken from Igoi dialect of Sob language. Sob has a traditional digit-tally system up to 100.

Notes from Ryan Harty:

Data given is semi-phonetic: Sob [ɾ] is represented in this data with <r>. In Sob orthography, the close back unrounded vowel /ɯ/ is represented as <ü>. I have omitted entries above the number 100. There are speculative possibilities for 200, 400, etc., but I have not included them because I consider them unreliable. Speakers of the language do not readily agree on how to count this high. In practice, numbers above 100 are usually given in Tok Pisin rather than Sob.

I have also been able to find lexical correspondences between some cardinal numbers and body parts (cf. Pawley & Hammarström in Palmer ed. 2017: 130). See chart below.

 

Numeral

Numerical lexical form

Body part correspondence

Lexical form of body part

1

gɯrena

pinky finger

 same

2

akɯre

ring finger

 same

3

kɯi

middle finger

 same

4

dogob

index finger

 same

5

taba

thumb

tabam gem

6

kubete

palm of hand

kube

7

nonob

 

 

8

dɯm

 

 

9

dam

 

 

10

fogo

shoulder

fogob

 


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