Language name and location: Sougb, West Papua, Indonesia [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 索格布语 (马尼提翁语 Manition), 印尼西巴布亚省地区

1. hom

21.  

2. hwai

22.  

3. homoi

23.  

4. hoɡu

24.  

5. serɡem

25.  

6. senɡɡem

26.  

7. senɡɡai

27.  

8. senɡɡomoi

28. 

9. senɡɡoɡu

29.  

10. sisa

30.  mos-homoi

11. hop-jer-em or sisen-hom

40.  mos-hoɡu

12. hop-jer-ai or sisen-hwai

50.  mos-serɡem

13. hop-jer-omoi

60.  mos-senɡɡem

14. hop-jer-oɡu

70.  mos-senɡɡai

15. sorama

80.  mos-senɡɡomoi

16. sorama-hop-jer-em-nama

90.  mos-senɡɡoɡu

17. sorama-hop-jer-ai-nama 

100. untun hom (< Biak / Numfor )*

18. sorama-hop-jer-omoi-nama   

200.

19. sorama-hop-jer-oɡu-nama

1000. untun sisa

20. sudə-hom or mosə-hwai

2000.

Linguists providing data and dateː Dr. Ger Reesink, Radboud University, Numegen,

Netherlands. February 26. 2010.

提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Ger Reesink. 2010 年 2 月 26 日.

Other comments: Sougb or Mantian is spoken by about 12,000 speakers in about 50 villages in Bird’s Head area, southeast from Anggi lakes to Momi town on northwest,  Cenderawasih bay, West Papua province, Indonesia. The Sougb or Sough or Manikion or Mantion number system is clearly quintenary, based on digits of hands and feet, although the numbers are not clearly etymologically related to body parts. One starts with hom 'one', while pushing the thumb of the left hand down, followed by the index finger, hwai, until the left hand is a fist for sergem. The numbers 'six' to 'nine' are compound of 'seng 'five' + g + forms fro 'one' to 'four',

   The linking verb velar /g/ may well be the same morpheme as nominaliser.

   The terms for 'five', 'ten' and 'fifteen' are unexplained, although it is quite possible

that some morphological variant of 'hand' [sir], as in in-sra is present in the numbers

'five' to 'nine'. The term sorama 'fifteen' may well be related to ohora 'leg', through an

s-h correspondence, which is present throughout the eastern Bird's head.

   Once the fingers of two hands are counted, the higher numbers apparently refer to toes: hop means 'already', but jer is unexplained. The reference to the human body is

transparent in the numbers twenty, thirty, forty, etc., as now 'skins' are counted.

  The term untun 'hundred' is most likely of Austronesian origin, specially Numfor-Biak.