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Re: Numbers and math

From:Robert Hailman <robert@...>
Date:Thursday, September 21, 2000, 22:00
For Ajuk:

taliesin the storyteller wrote:
> > A classic question is: how do you count to ten in your conlang?
one - uz /uz/ two - zevir /ze.'vir/ three - drevir /dre.'vir/ four - ver /ver/ five - vuk /vuk/ six - zek /zek/ seven - tev /tev/ eight - itej /itej/ nine - eon /e.on/
> Generalizing: > - do you form ordinals from cardinals? how? if not, how?
Yes. Ordinals are formed by adding the suffix -en to the number, from there it's treated as an adjective. Examples: nomapi uzenot ladesh [I.masc.gen] [one.ord.inan.nom] [car.nom] /'nom.ap.i/ /'uz.en.ot/ /lad.'esh/ "my first car" Erapi zevirenoto sereko upoti Ajuk [he.masc.gen] [two.ord.inan.acc] [language.acc] [be.inan.3rd] [Ajuk.nom] /'er.ap.i/ /ze.'vir.en.ot.o/ /ser.'ek.o/ /'up.ot.i/ /ai.'uk/ "Ajuk is his second language" I haven't thought about the rest of them. -- Robert