Language name and locationː Tulil , Papua New Guinea [Refer toː Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 图利尔语 (陶利尔语 Taulil), 巴新东新不列颠省加泽尔半岛

1. təɡəta

2. mukəm

3. mukəm maɡəruŋ

4. balakətəria

5. libəti

6. nereita

7. nereita ko təɡəta (6+1)

8. nereita ko mukəm  (6+2)

9. nereita ko mukəm maɡəruŋ

10. ide-nok pətakəm (2 hands )  

11. ide-nok pətakəm təɡəta (2 hands+1)

12. ide-nok pətakəm mukəm (2 hands+2)

13. ide-nok pətakəm mukəm maɡəruŋ

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Chenxi Meng (Psyche Spades), Centre for Research on Language Diversity, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia. August 11, 2015.

提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Chenxi Meng (Psyche Spades), 2015 年 8 月 11 日.

Other comments: The Taulil or Tulil language is spoken by about 2,000 speakers at Taulil 1, Taulil 2, Kadaulung, and Toma villages of Gazelle peninsula in East New Britain province, Papua New Guinea. Tulil has a 6 basic forms in the counting system (1-6), with the large numbers represented by addition. However in nowadays usage, it getting common for the speakers to use English or Tolai language instead of the native forms. The Tulil language has 9 different noun classes, and the numerals also inflect for different classes. The on system represented here as usually used for counting is the one associated with the masculine class.

Table 1. Consonants Inventory of Tulil:

Table2. Vowel Inventory of Tulil: