Ndom

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Ndom
Spoken in: Papua New Guinea
Total speakers: 1200 [1]
Language family: Trans-New Guinea
 Kolopom
  Ndom 
Writing system: Latin alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: nqm

Ndom is a language spoken on Frederik Hendrik Island of Papua New Guinea. It is reported to have numbers in senary (base 6). A problem from the 2007 International Linguistics Olympiad focused on this number system.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version.

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The Number system of Ndom