The quantifiers in Ao are : /ka/
‘some’ and /áyka/ ‘many’
nisó ka
‘some persons’
person some
nisó
áyka
‘many persons/people’
person many
The plural
marker /-tem/ may optionally occur after the noun when /ka/
or /áyka/ occurs as with numerals.
nisó
tem ka
‘some persons’
2.3.
Numerals :
Numerals
form a special sub-class of nouns. The basic numerals denoting
the numbers from one to ten and twenty, fifty and hundred are
monomorphic. The other numerals are derived from compounding
these basic numerals. The basic numerals are given below :
ká
‘one’
aná
‘two’
asem
‘three’
pez
‘four’
puu
‘five’
tok
‘six’
tent
‘seven’
tí
‘eight’
tokó
‘nine’
té
‘ten’
mec
‘twenty’
tenem
‘fifty’
nokla
‘hundred’
The numbers
from eleven to nineteen are formed by adding the basic numerals
from one to nine after /té/
‘ten’.
téká
‘eleven’
téaná
‘twelve
téasem
‘thirteen’
tépez
‘fourteen’
tépuu
‘fifteen’
tétok
‘sixteen’
tétenet
‘seventeen’
tétí
‘eighteen’
tétokó
‘nineteen’
The
multiples of tens upto ninety except twenty and fifty are formed
by adding the alomorph /é/ of the
morpheme /té/
‘ten’ after the basic numerals.
semé
‘thirty’
liyé
‘forty’
oké
‘sixty’
neté
‘seventy’
tíyé
‘eighty’
tokó
‘ninety’
When the
allomorph /-é/
is added to the primary numerals the following morphophonemic changes take
place.
a) The first syllable of /asem/ ‘three’ and /tenet/
‘seven’ are dropped.
b) The first consonant of /tok/
‘six’ is dropped.
c) The numeral /pez/
‘four’ has /li-/ as the stem variant.
d) The initial vowel of /é/
is dropped when it is added to the numeral /tokó/ ‘nine’
ending in a back vowel.
e) The glide /y/ is inserted when the basic numeral ends in a
front vowel as in /lié/
‘sixty’ and /tíyé/
‘eighty’.
The thirtyone and fortyone etc., are formed by adding the basic
numerals one to nine.
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‘some’ and /áyka/ ‘many’ 
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