Numbers in Abui

How to count in Abui (Abui tanga), a Trans-New Guinea language spoken on the Alor Archipelago in East Nusa Tenggara province in eastern Indonesia.

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Numeral	Cardinal numbers	Ordinal numbers
1	nuku	he-teitu
2	ayoku	he-ayoku
3	sua	he-sua
4	buti	he-buti
5	yeting	he-yeting
6	talaama	he-talaama
7	yetingayoku (5+2)	he-yetingayoku
8	yetingsua (5+3)	he-yetingsua
9	yetingbuti (5+4)	he-yetingbuti
10	karnuku	he-karnuku
11	karnuku wal nuku
12	karnuku wal ayoku
13	karnuku wal sua
14	karnuku wal buti
15	karnuku wal yeting
16	karnuku wal talaama
17	karnuku wal yetingayoku
18	karnuku wal yetingsua
19	karnuku wal yetingbuti
20	kar-ayoku
21	kar-ayoku wal nuku
22	kar-ayoku wal ayoku
23	kar-ayoku wal sua
24	kar-ayoku wal buti
25	kar-ayoku wal yeting
26	kar-ayoku wal talaama
27	kar-ayoku wal yetingayoku
28	kar-ayoku wal yetingsua
29	kar-ayoku wal yetingbuti
30	kar-sua
40	kar-buti
50	kar-yeting
60	kar-talaama
70	kar-yetingayoku
80	kar-yetingsua
90	kar-yetingbuti
100	aisaha nuku
200	aisaha ayoku
300	aisaha sua
400	aisaha buti
500	aisaha yeting
600	aisaha talaama
700	aisaha yetingayoku
800	aisaha yetingsua
900	aisaha yetingbuti
1,000	rifi nuku
2,000	rifi ayoku
3,000	rifi sua
4,000	rifi buti
5,000	rifi yeting
6,000	rifi talaama
7,000	rifi yetingayoku
8,000	rifi yetingsua
9,000	rifi yetingbuti
10,000	rifi karnuku
1,000,000	rat nuku

Notes

rifi (thousand) is probably a loan word from the Malay ribu (thousand)
rat (million) is probably related to the Malay ratus (hundred)

Sources

Marian Klamer & František Kratochvíl. Number and quantity in East Nusantara. Asia Pacific Linguistics. The Australian National University. Canberra – 2014.
František Kratochvíl: A Grammar of Abui. A Papuan language of Alor. Utrecht, The Netherlands – 2007.
Kratochvíl, František, and Benidiktus Delpada. Abui-Indonesian-English Dictionary. Kamus Pengantar Bahasa Abui. Kupang, Indonesia - 2008.

Information compiled by Wolfgang Kuhl

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