Language name and location: Ap Ma, Papua New Guinea [Refer to Ethnologue ]
语言名称和分布地区: 阿普-马语, 巴布亚新几内亚东锡皮克省 内陆安戈拉姆区

1. wa ‘one; a, an’ (indefinite marker?); mba ‘one’ (also mboa);

    mboa ‘one’ (< mba-wa ‘a/one one’?) (also mba)

2. niŋgon ‘two’ [ɲiŋgon] (also nuŋgon); nuŋgon ‘two’ [ɲuŋgon] (also nuŋgon)

3. sala ‘three’ (also means ‘some’)

4. leo ‘four’

5. mbɨwa ‘five’ (< mbɨ-wa ‘a/one five’?)

6. mbɨwa awan mba ‘six’ (‘five plus one’)

7. mbɨwa awan niŋgon ‘seven’ (‘five plus two’)

8. mbɨwa awan sala ‘eight’ (‘five plus three’)

9. mbɨwa awan leo ‘nine’ (‘five plus four’)

10. mbɨwa awan mbɨwa ‘ten’ (‘five plus five’) (also mbɨniŋgon);

    mbɨniŋgon ‘ten’ [mbɨɲiŋgon] (< mbɨ-niŋgon ‘two fives’) (also mbɨwa awan mbɨwa);

    ŋgo (mba) ‘ten’ (used for counting money)

20. ŋgo niŋgon ‘twenty’ (‘two tens’) (used for counting money)

50. ŋgut (mba) ‘fifty’ (used for counting money)

100. ŋgut niŋgon ‘hundred’ (‘two fifties’) (used for counting money)

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Russell Barlow, Department. of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Leipzig, Germany, September 20, 2021.
提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Russell Barlow, 2021 年 9 月 20 日.

Other comments: Ap Ma has a quinary counting. Ap Ma is spoken by approximately 10, 000 speakers in the Angoram district, inland of the East Sepik province, Papua New Guinea.