Re: Deriving fractions and percentages (was: [Theory] Types of numerals)
| From: | Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 18, 2006, 18:02 |
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> On 1/18/06, Yahya Abdal-Aziz <yahya@...> wrote:
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> > How do your conlangs derive fractions and percentages?
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Kash: not terribly original, I'm afraid. Only 1/2 is based on a non-number:
mesangunjo (mesa 'one', angunjo 'division', nomlz. < kunjo 'divide').
The others are simply _unit + ordinal_ (ordinals are ku+num.):
mesa kusila 1/3, mesa kuha 1/4, etc.
sila kufola 3/10, sor kurongo 7/100, sopolasán kuwamba 79/1000.
They are written with a slash, just like the above.
Percents are expressed as hundredths (there should be a better way if we
want to have things like "1000%").
Decimals: .05 can be read either nim kurongo 'five hundredths' or kik tanda
nim 'decimal-point zero five'. If there are multiple zeros, "tanda" gets
shortened to "ta ~tat"-- .000093 "kik ta ta ta tat sana sit"
"Double" I know is _roka_ (adj. form with suffix -ka(le); I don't think
we've put triple, quadruple etc. in the dictionary yet, but they'd be
similar. "To double" would be çukroka (intr.) and rundoka (trans.), resp.
inchoative and causative forms.
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