Kaugel (Gawigl) is one of the languages spoken in the
Southern Highlands province of
Papua New Guinea. Native speakers call the area on the
Southern Highlands side of the
Kaugel River from the Western Highlands province home.
Dialects are Aua (Ibo Ugu, Imbo Ungu,
Imbongu) and Gawil (Umbo Ungu, Kakoli).
Kaugel counts with a
base-24
Positional notation (or place-value notation, or positional numeral system) usually denotes the extension to any base of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system (or decimal system). More generally, a positional system is a numeral system in which the ...
system in cycles of 4. The word for 4 is also the word for hand in reference to the four fingers.
A translation of the New Testament was published in 1997 and is currently available online.
Imbongu has a
pandanus language used during
karuka harvest.
References
External links
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Organised Phonology Data
Languages of Southern Highlands Province
Chimbu–Wahgi languages
Pandanus avoidance registers
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