Kaugel (Gawigl) is one of the languages spoken in the
Southern Highlands province of
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...
. 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, also known as place-value notation, positional numeral system, or simply place value, usually denotes the extension to any base of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system (or decimal system). More generally, a positional system i ...
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
A pandanus language is an elaborate avoidance language among several of the peoples of the eastern New Guinea Highlands, used when collecting ''Pandanus'' nuts.
Use
Annually, people camp in the forest to harvest and cook the Nut (fruit), nuts ...
used during
karuka
The karuka (''Pandanus julianettii'', also called karuka nut and ''Pandanus'' nut) is a species of tree in the screwpine family (Pandanaceae) and an important regional food crop in New Guinea. The nuts are more nutritious than coconuts, and ar ...
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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