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Huli language

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Ethnicity
  
Huli people

ISO 639-3
  
hui

Native speakers
  
150,000 (2011)

Region
  
Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea

Language family
  
Trans–New Guinea Engan South Huli

Writing system
  
Latin script (Huli alphabet) Huli Braille

Huli is a Trans–New Guinea language spoken by the Huli people of the Southern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea. It features a pentadecimal (base-15) numeral system: ngui means 15, ngui ki means 15×2 = 30, and ngui ngui means 15×15 = 225.

References

Huli language Wikipedia