Language name and location: Wutung, Papua New Guinea [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 伍通语, 巴布亚新几内亚桑道恩省瓦尼莫区伍通村

1. ofa

21.  samuli hɲumo ple ofa

2. hɲumo

22.  samuli hɲumo hɲumo

3. hɛno

23.  samuli hɲumo hɛno

4. no

24.  samuli hɲumo no

5. wi

25.  samuli hɲumo wi

6. not͡ʃio        (< 4+1 ) *

26.  samuli hɲumo not͡ʃio

7. not͡ʃiohɲu   (< 4+2 )

27.  samuli hɲumo not͡ʃiohɲu

8. not͡ʃiohɛno (< 4+3 )

28.  samuli hɲumo not͡ʃiohɛno

9. not͡ʃɛno      (< 4+4 )

29.  samuli samuli hɲumo not͡ʃɛno

10. samuli

30.  samuli hɛno

11. samuli ofa ple ofa

40.  samuli no

12. samuli ofa ple hɲumo

50.  samuli wi

13. samuli ofa ple hɛno

60.  samuli not͡ʃio

14. samuli ofa ple no

70.  samuli not͡ʃiohɲu

15. samuli ofa ple wi

80.  samuli not͡ʃiohɛno

16. samuli ofa ple not͡ʃio

90.  samuli not͡ʃɛno

17. samuli ofa ple not͡ʃiohɲu

100. Top Pisin

18. samuli ofa ple not͡ʃiohɛno

19. samuli ofa ple not͡ʃɛno

20. samuli hɲumo

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Doug Marmion, Department of Linguistics, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, September 26, 2008.

提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Doug Marmion, 2008 年 9 月 26 日.

Other comments: Wutung has a decimal system of counting but with what appears to be a relic of a base-4 system, however it is odd as 6 appears to be (morphologically)  4+1, 7 is 4+2, 8 is 4+3 and 9 is 4+4. The word for 4 however is very similar to the word for 'hand' ('no' or 'noqe') and it would seem reasonable to have expected it to be quinary. Wutung speakers don't seem to have words for 100 and although they do have ways of expressing numbers up to 99 they normally use Tok Pisin for anything above the twenties. Wutung is tonal and has a quite complex 'word-tone' system where the tonal contour operates across the whole word (as opposed to the  syllable). Wutung is spoken by about 600 speakers in  Wutung village, Vanimo district, coast bordering Papua, Indonesia, Sandaun province, Papua New Guinea.