Huli language
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| Huli | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in | Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea | |
| Total speakers | 70,000 | |
| Language family | Trans–New Guinea | |
| Writing system | Latin alphabet | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | paa | |
| ISO 639-3 | hui | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Huli is a Papuan language spoken by the Huli people of the Southern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea. It features a quindecimal (base-15) numeral system.
[edit] References
- Lomas, Gabe (1988). The Huli language of Papua New Guinea. PhD Thesis, Macquarie University.
[edit] External links
- Ethnologue report for language code:hui
- Huli counting system
- "Counting and number in Huli", Brian Cheetam. Papua New Guinea Journal of Education
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