Re: Numbers and math

Am 09/22 21:09  Dan Jones yscrifef:
> taliessin the storyteller wrote:
> > A classic question is: how do you count to ten in your conlang?
>
Brithenig is boring old decimal up to ten.

1. yn (+ soft mutation before feminine nouns)
2. dew (+ aspirant mutation)
3. trui (+ aspirant mutation)
4. cathr
5. cinc (cin before nouns)
6. sei (+ aspirant mutation)
7. seth
8. oeth
9. noe
10. deg'

After that we begin to play a bit.

11. yndig'
12. duddig'
13. truiddig'
14. cathorddig'
15. cindig'
16. yn e chindig'
17. dew h-e chindig'
18. dewnoe
19. cathr e chindig'
20. gweint (gwein before nouns)

Sixteen things is _yn gos e chindig'_, or _yn e chindig' di llo chos_
and so forth with numbers crunched together in this way.  After twenty
the numbers are vingesimal (sic): deg' e weint, 30, trui weint, 60, up
to 100, cent (cen).

- andrew.
--
Andrew Smith, Intheologus                       hobbit@earthlight.co.nz

Deep peace of the running wave to you.