Language
name and location:
Waran,
Papua
New
Guinea
[Refer to
Ethnologue ] |
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. |
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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