Language name and locationː Toura, Papua New Guinea [Refer to Ethnologue]
言名称和分布地区: 托拉语 (多拉语 Doura), 巴布亚新几内亚中部省莫尔兹比港西北部地区

 

1. auka-ona

2. aulua

3. aukui

4. auhani

5. au-ima (lit: 'hand')

6. tauratoi (2 x 3)

7. hitu < Polynesian 

8. taurahani  (2 x 4)

9.  taurahani ta (2 x 4+1)

10. oukara

20. ruahui

30. toihui 

40hanihui

50imahui

100sinahu < loanword from Roro

1000. taha

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Glen A. Lean, Department of Communications, Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Lae, Papua New Guinea, 1991.
供资料的语言学家: Dr. Glen A. Lean, 1991 年.

 

Other comments: Toura or Doura has a decimal system with particular substructure for numbers 6, 8 and 9,  and 7 is a loanword from Polynesian language. Number 'hundred' is a loanword from Roro language. The people may use English to Tok Pisin numerals after five nowadays. Toura is spoken by about 1,800 speakers in Galley Reach area, Central province, Papua New Guinea.


 

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