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

语言名称和分布地区: 雅加里亚语, 巴布亚新几内亚东高地省戈罗卡地区

1. bɡotvoʔ ( lit: ''some + plain /real'), boɡokobo ( from villageː Numugu-Haga)

2. rori, lolemo ( lit: ''two'')

3. roriɡʔ bɡotvaɡiʔ, loleʔe boɡeʔe (lit: ''two and one'')

4. roriɡʔ roriɡʔ, loleʔe loleʔe (lit: ''two and two'') 

5. dzaʔ hatɡidiʔ (litː ''may hand finishing'),

   danota boɡo ɡaeɡaʔa mo hanoʔize (lit: ''my one hand'')

6. beyond thus < Tok Pisin,  loleʔe loleʔe loleʔe (lit: ''two and two and two'')

7. sevenpela < Tok Pisin, loleʔe loleʔe loleʔe boɡeʔe 

8. eitpela < Tok Pisin, loleʔe loleʔe loleʔe loleʔe

9. nainpela < Tok Pisin, loleʔe loleʔe loleʔe loleʔe boɡeʔe 

10. rori dzaʔ hatɡidiʔ or tenpela < Tok Pisin,

     danota luɡa luɡaʔamo hanoʔize lole [lit: my-hand (both) finished''] or

     danita loleʔe (litː ''my hands two'')

20. dzaʔ hatɡidiʔ dzaʔ hatɡidiʔ, or twenipela < Tok Pisin.

Linguist providing data and dateː Prof. John Haiman. Faculty of Linguistics, Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA, June 7, 2011.

提供资料的语言学家: Prof. John Haiman,  20011 年 6 月 7 日.

Other comments: Yagaria is spoken by approximately 40,000 speakers in Goroka district, Eastern Highlands province, Papua New Guinea. The Yagaria people has a traditional digit-tally counting system up to twenty before, however, people only remember few words from 1 to 10 and 20 now. On the above table, the first set is from Hu(v)a dialect and the second was derived from an SIL survey word list complied at Numugu-Hagu village in 1972.