- Ngiti language
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Ngiti Ndruna Spoken in Congo (DRC) Native speakers 100,000 (1991) Language family Nilo-Saharan?- Central Sudanic
- Eastern
- Lendu
- Ngiti
- Lendu
- Eastern
Language codes ISO 639-3 niy The Ngiti, or South Lendu, is an ethnolinguistic group located in the Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Ngiti speakers call their language Ndruna. As of 1991, the Ngiti numbered 100,000 located in the Irumu territory south of Bunia.[1] During the Ituri conflict, the Front for Patriotic Resistance of Ituri was formed as a Ngiti militia group and political party.[2]
Non-standard numeral system
Ngiti is reported to have a base-32 number system with base-4 cycles.[3] The following is a list of some Ngiti numerals.
Number Numeral 1 atdí 2 ɔyɔ 3 ɨ̀bhʉ 4 ɨ̀fɔ 8 àrʉ̀ 12 otsi 16 ɔpɨ 20 àbà 24 àròtsí 28 àdzòro 32 wǎdhɨ̀ 64 ɔyɔ wǎdhɨ̀ 96 ɨ̀bhʉ wǎdhɨ̀ 128 ɨ̀fɔ wǎdhɨ̀ Further reading
- Kutsch Lojenga, Constance. 1994. Ngiti: a Central-Sudanic language of Zaire. Nilo-Saharan, 9. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe
Notes and references
- ^ Ngiti from Ethnologue
- ^ "DRC: Who's who in Ituri – militia organisations, leaders", IRIN, 20 April 2005
- ^ Hammarström, Harald (2006), "Rarities in Numeral Systems", Proceedings of Rara & Rarissima Conference, http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~harald2/rarapaper.pdf
Categories:- Ethnic groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Central Sudanic languages
- African ethnic group stubs
- Democratic Republic of the Congo stubs
- Central Sudanic
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