Huli language
Huli | |
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Region | Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea |
Ethnicity | Huli people |
Native speakers | 150,000 (2011)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea
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Latin script (Huli alphabet) Huli Braille | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
hui |
Glottolog |
huli1244 [2] |
Huli is a Trans–New Guinea language spoken by the Huli people of the Southern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea. It features a pentadecimal (base-15) numeral system: ngui means 15, ngui ki means 15×2 = 30, and ngui ngui means 15×15 = 225.
References
- ↑ Huli at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Huli". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Lomas, Gabe (1988). The Huli language of Papua New Guinea. PhD Thesis, Macquarie University.
External links
- Huli counting system
- "Counting and number in Huli", Brian Cheetam. Papua New Guinea Journal of Education
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