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-Mark Twain

A Year in Language, 153: Enga Enga is the largest, in terms of number of native speakers, native language of Papua New Guinea, spoken by almost 250,000 people in the province that shares its name in the northern part of the country. In an island nation that contains almost 12% of global linguistic diversity the Enga province is actually noteworthy for its lack of common use of English, Tok Pisin, or any of the islands other pidgins and lingua francas. Enga numerals are closely related to a "body tally" system. Westerners are used to the concept of counting on your fingers, and the practice is likely the origin of decimal (base ten) counting systems the world over. In Enga this relation is more obvious; the numeral 1-4 are similar to terms for the various fingers, an etymology reinforced by the word for 5 literally being "thumb". The words for ten is comprised of "man" plus a completive suffix, implying a whole of constituent parts (fingers).