Ndom

See also: ndom

English

Proper noun

Ndom

  1. A language spoken on Yos Sudarso Island, Papua, Indonesia.
    • 2007, Ivan Derzhanski, “Fifth International Olympiad in Theoretical, Mathematical and Applied Linguistics”, in International Linguistics Olympiad‎[1], page 3:
      The squares of the numbers 1 to 10 are spelt out in the Ndom3 language, in arbitrary order: […] 3 The Ndom language belongs to the Trans-New Guinea family. It is spoken by about 1200 people on the isle of Kolopom (Pulau Kolepom, Pulau Kimaam or Pulau Dolok, formerly Frederick Hendrik Island) off the coast of the Indonesian half of New Guinea.
    • (Can we date this quote?), jan Misali, “what to call the numbers”, in seximal.net‎[2]:
      how about 100 then? for 100, I wanted to pay homage to the people who have been using seximal this entire time. specifically, I used the word for six sixes found in the Ndom language, "nif".

See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Ndom terms
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