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Re: Numbers and math

From:andrew <hobbit@...>
Date:Sunday, September 24, 2000, 2:58
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.