Re: USAGE: Well, at least he created numbers.....

> However, this brings me to a question I've been meaning to ask for
> several
> months now.  What does the prhase "four thousand nine" mean in your
> conlangs?  In English it would mean 4009, but in Chinese it means
> 4900.
> What do you do with this?
Well, Yivríndil doesn't have this problem.  We list smallest numbers
first, and every counting digit gets its own indicator for value.  Thus,
'4009' is said:
katu'uva
ka-tu=uva
nine-four-thousand

I think that the Yivríndi also write out their numerals from least to
greatest value, but I haven't worked out their written numbers yet.


Jesse S. Bangs     Pelíran
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