Re: project Beta: Numbers
| From: | John Vertical <johnvertical@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 26, 2006, 20:55 |
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Jeff Jones wrote:
>For one of my new sketches, I've come up with a set of number words
>that can handle cardinals from 1 to 9999. Comments are encouraged.
>
>1. da
>2. sóci
>3. kóli
>4. scíri
>5. zóbi
>6. dazbi
>7. skózbi
>8. klizbi
>9. scirózbi
>10. zbíri
>11. zbirge dai
>12. zbirge sóci
> etc.
>20. sókrou zbíri
>21. sókrou zbirge dai
> etc.
>30. klírou zbíri
>40. scírou zbíri
>50. zóbrou zbíri
>60. dazbrou zbíri
> etc.
>100. zózbi
>
>6789 = dazbrou zbirge skózbrou zózboge klizbrou zbirge scirózbi
Very nicely translucent. Is there any meaning to the c<>k alternation or is
it purely decorative?
If I were you, I'd regularize the tens marker of 11-19 from -ge to -ou (it
seems like a fairly European thing in the first place), but that's just my
opinion there.
>I'm not sure I like it, looking at it a second time; too many z's.
>
>Jeff
Well, all the z's apparently stem from "zóbi". If there's some phoneme you
*can* stand in abundance, you could just change that there. Or am I missing
something?
John Vertical