Ndom is a language spoken on
Yos Sudarso Island
Pulau Yos Sudarso or Pulau Dolok is an island separated only by the narrow Muli Strait from the main island of New Guinea. It is part of the Merauke Regency, in the Indonesian province of South Papua. The island is leaf-shaped, about long with a ...
in
Papua province,
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Gui ...
. It is reported to have numbers in
senary
A senary () numeral system (also known as base-6, heximal, or seximal) has six as its base. It has been adopted independently by a small number of cultures. Like decimal, it is a semiprime, though it is unique as the product of the only two c ...
(base 6). A problem from the 2007
International Linguistics Olympiad focused on this number system.
Ndom
International Linguistics Olympiad 2007.
References
External links
Ndom
New Guinea World.
Languages of western New Guinea
Kolopom languages
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