Ndom is a language spoken on
Yos Sudarso Island in
Papua province,
Indonesia
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. It is reported to have numbers in
senary
A senary () numeral system (also known as base-6, heximal, or seximal) has 6, six as its radix, 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 ...
(base 6). A problem from the 2007
International Linguistics Olympiad
The International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL) is one of the International Science Olympiads for secondary school students. Its abbreviation IOL is deliberately chosen not to correspond to the name of the organization in any particular language, an ...
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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