Language name and location: Tehit, Bird’s Head, Indonesia [Refer to Ethnologue]

言名称和分布地区特希特语, 印度尼西亚巴布亚省鸟头半岛西南部

 

1. m̩re

21.  na m̩re waiɡi whri na wna m̩re *

2. lak

22.  na m̩re waiɡi whri na wna lak

3. tolik < Austronesian ?

23.  na m̩re waiɡi whri na wna tolik

4. hat   < Austronesian ?

24.  na m̩re waiɡi whri na wna hat

5. mahot

25.  na m̩re waiɡi whri na wna mahot

6. m̩tamre   (5 + 1)

26.  na m̩re waiɡi whri na wna m̩tamre

7. m̩talak    (5 + 2)

27.  na m̩re waiɡi whri na wna m̩talak

8. m̩tadolik (5 + 3)

28.  na m̩re waiɡi whri na wna m̩tadolik

9. m̩tahat    (5 + 4)

29.  na m̩re waiɡi whri na wna m̩tahat 

10. yahar

30.  na m̩re waiɡi whri na na yahar 

11. yahar teit m̩re  *

40.  na lak yeiɡi (2 x 20)

12. yahar teit lak

50.  na lak yeiɡi whri na yahar

13. yahar teit tolik

60.  na tolik yeiɡi (3 x 20)

14. yahar teit hat

70.  na tolik yeiɡi whri na yahar

15. yahar teit mahot

80.  na hat yeiɡi  (4 x 20)

16. yahar teit m̩tamre

90.  na hat yeiɡi whri yahar

17. yahar teit m̩talak

100. na mahot yeiɡi (5 x 20)

18. yahar teit m̩tadolik

200. na yahar yeiɡi (10 x 20)

19. yahar teit m̩tahat 

 

20. na m̩re waiɡi (lit: person one die)

 

  

Linguist providing data and dateː Mr. Ronald G. Hesse, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Indonesia, September 8, 1995.

供资料的语言学家: Mr. Ronald G. Hesse, 1995 年 9 月 8 日.

 

Other comments: Imyan Tehit has a counting system based on twenty with a five-base substructure. The numbers ''three'' and ''four'' might be loanwords from Austronesian. The word 'teit' in 11 to 19 means 'leg' and 'wna' in 21 to 29 means 'hand' and 'whri 'means 'add'. 20 is expressed by 'person one die'. Tehit is spoken by approximately

10, 000 speakers in several villages in southwest Bird’s Head, West Papua province.


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