Language name and location: Ngaalam, Southwest, Ethiopia [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 恩加拉姆语, 埃塞俄比亚西南部

1. omma

21.  ééti omma ko omma

2. ramma

22.  ééti omma ko ramma

3. itʃtʃó

23.  ééti omma ko itʃtʃó

4. wétʃ

24.  ééti omma ko wétʃ

5. túúr

25.  ééti omma ko túúr

6. tɔrkɔnɔm 

26.  ééti omma ko tɔrkɔnɔm  

7. tɔrɡɛrɛm 

27.  ééti omma ko tɔrɡɛrɛm 

8. turɡé   

28.  ééti omma ko turɡé    

9. tɔrkɔɔtʃ 

29.  ééti omma ko tɔrkɔɔtʃ  

10. mɔt̪t̪ɔ

30.  ééti omma ko mɔt̪t̪ɔ

11. mɔt̪t̪ɔ ko omma

40.  ɔla ramma (20 x 2)

12. mɔt̪t̪ɔ ko ramma

50.  ɔla ramma ko mɔt̪t̪ɔ

13. mɔt̪t̪ɔ ko itʃtʃó

60.  ɔla wétʃ (20 x 3) 

14. mɔt̪t̪ɔ ko wétʃ

70.  ɔla wétʃ ko mɔt̪t̪ɔ

15. mɔt̪t̪ɔ ko túúr

80.  difa omma

16. mɔt̪t̪ɔ ko tɔrkɔnɔm  

90.  difa omma ko mɔt̪t̪ɔ

17. mɔt̪t̪ɔ ko tɔrɡɛrɛm 

100. difa ramma

18. mɔt̪t̪ɔ ko turɡé    

200. dife ta ramma

19. mɔt̪t̪ɔ ko tɔrkɔɔtʃ  

300. dife ta itʃtʃó 

20. ééti omma ('one person')

1000. 

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Moges Yigezu, Associate Professor of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics and Philology, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, February 11, 2022.

提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Moges Yigezu, 2022 年 2 月 11 日

Other comments: Ngaalam is an endangered Nilo-Saharan language of Southwest Ethiopia. Ngaalam has a quinary numeral system and combines base five, base ten and base twenty systems for higher numerals. 

Yigezu (2005) notes that although Baale is genetically a Southwest Surmic language, it has taken on many features of Southeast Surmic languages due to heavy contact.

Notes:

• Like the rest of the Surmic languages, Ngaalam has a quinary numeral system and combines base five, base ten and base twenty systems for higher numerals.

• The word for 'twenty' contains the root for 'person', ééti (one person with all fingers and toes); a system based on fingers and toes is typical to Surmic.

• Higher numerals are twenty-based representing one person for 'twenty', two persons for 'forty', three persons for 'sixty', etc.

• The source and meaning of difa 'one hundred' is not clear for the time being. Compare the Oromo form ɗiba and the Majang form ɗibe  for 'hundred', however