Language name and location: Waran, Papua New Guinea [Refer to Ethnologue ]
言名称和分布地区瓦兰语 (巴纳若语 Banaro), 巴新东锡皮克省及马当省

 

1. wunen

2. niniŋ

3. niniŋ wo

4. wendowak

5. ɡap wunen

10. ɡap niniŋ

 

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 14, East Sepik Province Department of Mathematics and Statistics, 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: Waran or Banaro is spoken by approximately 4,000 speakers in twenty villages, three of which lie in the Madang Province. Only one CSQ was obtained for this language and this was completed by an informant from Yar village. The data provided by the CSQ informant indicated a system with a (2, 5) cyclic pattern was used. It possessed a modified 2-cycle (2) in that it has three basic numeralsː 1, 2, and 4 and 3 has a '2+1' construction. The number words for 5 and 10 both contain the word 'gap' which the informant indicated does not mean 'hand', which is 'hagalo', but rather the 'palm of the hand' so that 5 is 'palm-one' and 10 is 'palm two'. New data needed to compare with the old one.


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