Native to Papua New Guinea Glottolog auag1234 | Native speakers 77,000 (2000 census) | |
Region Southern Highlands Province Language family Trans–New Guinea
Chimbu–Wahgi
Hagen
Kaugel ISO 639-3 Either:
imo – Ibo Ugu (Imbo Ungu)
ubu – Ubu Ugu (Umbu Ungu) |
Kaugel (Gawigl) is one of the languages spoken in the Southern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea. 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 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.
References
Kaugel language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA