Re: Numbers

>Axiem <axiem@...> wrote:
>
>    How do you all handle numbers, anyways? Like saying "I have 5 things"
> or whatever? Would it be considered an adjective, or article of some
> sort? I know Di^me'l uses base 16 numbers, but I'm not sure how to say I
> have so many of an object, or even how to count above 10 (base 16)..like
> would 11 be (ten)(one) or (one)(ten) or something else?
dhairbbyic (pronounced /dhA'ir<trl>b<h>u":,ik/, for those who care. The 'dh'
is a cluster, d+h, no digraph)
has, besides having a base of 5, taken most of the rest of it from Finnish.

Numbers are adjectives, although they do some special things with case that
usual adjectives don't. Generally,
a large number just is a compound - no conjunctions, no 'strange' word
order.

However, every single part of the number is inflected for case (and number,
a little pecularity which'll be explained
later, if I don't skip the whole idea). So, such a phrase like "at
twothousandthreehundredfiftysixahalf people"
would come out "attwoatthousandatthreeathundredatfiftyatsixathalf atpeople".
A little sadistic 'feature' stolen
from Finnish :-)  (anybody said a conlanger must be friendly? :)

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