Language name and location: Naami, NW region, Cameroon [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 纳阿米语 (贝贝语 Bebe), 喀麦隆西北区东加-芒同州

1. mʷɛ

21.  mbʷɛŋ fjé ⁿtʃɔ.mʷɛ̂ 

2. bifʷé

22.  mbʷɛŋ fjé ⁿtʃɔ.bifʷé

3. bitɔ

23.  mbʷɛŋ fjé ⁿtʃɔ.bitɔ

4. binwà

24.  mbʷɛŋ fjé ⁿtʃɔ.binwà

5. bitîŋ

25.  mbʷɛŋ fjé ⁿtʃɔ.bitîŋ

6. buɬɔ

26.  mbʷɛŋ fjé ⁿtʃɔ.buɬɔ

7. fùmáɲàŋ (8 - 1)

27.  mbʷɛŋ fjé ⁿtʃɔ.fùmáɲàŋ

8. ɲàŋ

28.  mbʷɛŋ fjé ⁿtʃɔ.ɲàŋ

9. fùmájufi  (10 - 1)

29.  mbʷɛŋ fjé ⁿtʃɔ.fùmájufi

10. jufi

30.  mbʷɛŋ ʃɔ

11. jufi ⁿtʃɔ.mʷɛ̂

40.  mbʷɛŋ ɲâ

12. jufi ⁿtʃɔ.bifʷé

50.  mbʷɛŋ ʃîŋ

13. jufi ⁿtʃɔ.bitɔ

60.  mbʷɛŋ buɬɔ

14. jufi ⁿtʃɔ.binwà

70.  mbʷɛŋ fùmáɲàŋ

15. jufi ⁿtʃɔ.bitîŋ

80.  mbʷɛŋ ɲàŋ

16. jufi ⁿtʃɔ.buɬɔ

90.  mbʷɛŋ fùmájufi

17. jufi ⁿtʃɔ.fùmáɲàŋ

100. ɡbí

18. jufi ⁿtʃɔ.ɲàŋ 

200. ɡí fʷé

19. jufi ⁿtʃɔ.fùmájufi

1000. ⁿtʃùkù

20. mbʷɛŋ fjé

2000. bintʃùkù bifʷé

Linguist providing data and dateː Ms. Grace Tabah through Mr. & Mrs. Rich & Katrina Boutwell, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Cameroon, December 8, 2010, June 5, 2014.

提供资料的语言学家: Ms. Grace Tabah, 2010 年 12 月 8 日, 2014 年 6 月 5 日.

Other comments: Naami or Bebe is spoken by approxiamley 3,500 speakers in North West region: Donga-Mantung division, Misaje subdivision, Bebe-Jama and Bebe-Jatto villages west of Nkambe, north of Ring Road, Cameroon. Bebe, which has recently been renamed Naami (which is the name of the language as opposed to Bebe which refers to the people), has a decimal system similar to that of Nsari language. Notice again that 1-5 are prefixed with class agreement, in this case even the single digits. The plural forms appear to agree with class 8 (bi-). Class 8 normally pairs with class 7, which is most often ki-. But Naami does have many noun pairs where the noun appears to take a zero prefix for sg and bi- for pl. So this could be consistent. Again, 100 belongs to gender 3/4, marked by labialization. Like other languages in our group, 10s are joined to 1s by ntʃə. Seven and nine appear to be complex forms with a prefix fuma- (or perhaps it's compounding). But we do not have an analysis of this particular morpheme; most likely a subtractive morpheme of some kind. The tone marking is standard: à=low, á=high, â=falling, ǎ=rising, a=mid.