Language name and location: Ambakich, Papua New Guinea [Refer to Ethnologue ]
语言名称和分布地区: 安巴基齐语 (艾荣语Aion), 巴布亚新几内亚东锡皮克省

1. ko ‘one; a, an [indf]’ (used attributively or as indefinite marker) [ko ~ kɔ ~ qɔ]

   koŋ ‘one’ (used in counting) [kɔŋ ~ qoŋ] (/kon/?)

2. nuŋgun ‘two’ [nuŋgun]

3. sok ‘three’

4. ndrikok ‘four’ (/ndɨrikok/?)

5. ndop koŋ ‘five’ (/ndop kon/?) (literally ‘one hand [i.e., five fingers]’)

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Russell Barlow, Dept. of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Leipiz, Germany, September 20, 2021.

提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Russell Barlow, 2021 年 9 月 20 日.

Other comments: Ambakich (also known as Aion [aew]), is a Papuan language of the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Ambakich is a member of the Keram language family. Spoken by approximately 700 speakers on the Sepik Basin; it is shown as being spoken along the Bien River, with Kambot [=Ap Ma [kbx]] to the southwest, Angoram [=Kanda [aog]] to the west and north, Adjoria [= Adjora or Abu [ado]] to the east, and “Porapora”, a spurious language, supposedly located to the southeast. As Z’graggen (1971:87) notes, however, the claim of a “Porapora” language probably results from confusion with the Porapora Census Division; in fact, in the area where this language is supposedly spoken there are speakers of Waran (or Banaro [byz]) and Adjora. Ambakich has only five words as numerals.  

Language name and location: Ambakich, Papua New Guinea [Refer to Ethnologue ]
语言名称和分布地区: 安巴基齐语 (艾荣语Aion), 巴布亚新几内亚东锡皮克省

1. koŋ

2. nuŋgun

3. sok

4. drikok

5. dop koŋ (literally ‘hand one’)

10. dop nuŋgun  (literally ‘hands two’)

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Glen A. Lean, Department of Communications, Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Lae, Papua New Guinea, 1991.
Sourceː Glendon A. Lean. Counting systems of Papua New Guinea, volume 14, East Sepik Province Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Lae, Papua New Guinea, 1991.
提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Glen A. Lean, 1991 年.

Other comments: Aion now is called Ambakich, is spoken by approximately 700 speakers in seven villages (Laycok, 1972, p.39) situated near the Porapora River in the extreme east of the East Sepik Province. One CSQ was completed by an informant from Arango village indicated that the Aion system is a digit-tally one with a 5 cycle ( and possibly 1 20- or 'man' cycle as well). There are four basic numeralsː 1,'kong', 2, 'nungun', 3,'sok', and 4,'drikok'. The number words for both 5 and 10 contain a 'hand' morpheme 'dop', so that 5 is 'hand-one' and 10 is 'hand (s) two'.