Language name and locationː Wahgi, Papua New Guinea [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 瓦赫吉语, 巴布亚新几内亚西高地省

1. endi

2. tal

3. tal endi ka

4. kaple kaple ~ tal si tal si

5. angel yemte ('hand half')

6. angel yem se mam yem si tual ker

7. pinjik nol

8. angel mung yem yem mam yi tal ma

9. angel mung yem yem pore tual kend

10. angel mung yem yem pore tual wonem  ('hand half half')

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Glen A. Lean, Department of Communications, Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Lae, Papua New Guinea, 1991.

Sourceː Glendon A. Lean. Counting systems of Papua New Guinea, volume 9, Western Highlands and Simbu Provinces. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Lae, Papua New Guinea, 1991.

Source: Mid-Wahgid.: Ramsey (1975).

提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Glen A. Lean, 1991 年.    

Other comments: Wahgi is spoken by approximately 100,000 people in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. Like other Chimbu languages, Wahgi has some unusual lateral consonants.

   Wahgi appears to have three word tones rather than phonemic tone on each syllable. At least one syllable will have a phonetic high tone, with the resulting patterns of high, rising and falling on words of one or two syllables, and peaking, rising and falling on words of three to five syllables. Stress also appears to be contrastive, but analysis is difficult.

   The Wahgi people use a finger-and-toe tally-system which has a (2,5) cyclic infrastructure. The first four number words, for example, have the construction 1,2, 2+1, 2+2, even though there is some variation over the Wahgi-speaking area regarding the actual number-words themselves. The word for 5 is 'angel yemte ('angek yemto', and other slight variants) which is 'hand half', 'angel'.