Language name and location: Melpa, WHP, Papua New Guinea [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 梅尔帕语, 巴布亚新几内亚西高地省

1. dende

2. rakl

3. rakltika

4. tembokaka or tembokaketle

5. pombi or pombingkutl

6. pombingkutl dende ngkutl rakl or angelamb dende (5+1 or 4+1)

7. pombingkutl rakl or kotrakltika

8. engkaka or engkakaketle or ki dende

9. pombi ti ngkutl

10. pombinraklngkutl

11. pombinrakltikangkutl

12. tembokakapoket

13. tembokakapoket pombin ti ngkutl (12+1)

14. tembokakapoket pombin rakl ngkutl  (12+2)

15. tembokakapoket pombin rakltika ngkutl (12+3)

16. ki rakl

17. ki rakl tende ngkutl 

18. ki rakl rakl ngkutl  

19. ki rakl rakltika ngkutl

20. ki rakl tembokaka

21. ki rakl pombingkutl

22. ki rakl pombingkutl dende

23. ki rakl pombingkutl rakl

24. ki rakltika

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 9, Southern Highlands Province, and Simbu Province. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Lae, Papua New Guinea, 1991.

Source: Medlpa dialect: Vicedom and Tischner (1948, Vol.1, pp.237-8).  
提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Glen A. Lean, 1991 年.    

Other comments: Melpa or Hagan has a 8-cycle system with vestiges of 2-, 4-, and 5-cycles. The Melpa data have several variations and show the complexity. Melpa (also written Medlpa) is a Papuan language spoken by about 130,000 people predominantly in Mount Hagen and the surrounding district of Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.