Re: Numbers

>ObConLang:
>   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?
Kaðuhhan has sixteen "numbers".  In general, cardinals are prefixed (kind of
like articles) and ordinals are suffixed (kind of like adjectives)...

The ten digits (one through ten) are:
nio, duo, tei, kue, penük, sue, sep, hok, neu, dek.
('ü' being a rounded 'i as in bit', supposed to be written w with an acute.
't' is 'ts'.  'nio' is like 'nee-o' rather than 'nyo'; similar for kue, sue,
etc...)

dek-hehhan - ten songs
hehan-dekk - tenth song

The plural, 'men-' is also called a number, but can only be cardinal.

men-hehhan - songs

Next (sek) and previous (hur) can be prefixed or suffixed, but there's a
difference:

hehann-sue ena hehann-sek
the sixth song and the song after it (the seventh)

hehann-sue ena sek-hehhan
the sixth song and the next song (if the sixth song is on a different shelf
from what we were at, 'the next song' isn't the seventh one, but the next
one on the shelf we started from)

[Uhh...  Try that again...
"Hand me books one, two, and three.  Go across the library, get me book
5000."
"Now, get me the next book" with "liwer-sekk" means I want book 5001.
"Now, get me the next book" with "sek-liwwer" means I want book four.
Does that make sense?  Is there a name for that?]

All (teut), and none (nel) are suffixed for emphasis:

teut-hehhan - all songs
hehan-teutt - each and every song

Final (guen) can only be suffixed.
hehann-nio  - first song
hehann-guen - last song

>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?
Hmm... if it's all base-sixteen, it'd be like (one)(ten), (one)(eleven),
(one)(twelve)...

But you could pull something like English or German, starting everything
over at ten (eight nine ten eleven twelve, but twenty-eight twenty-nine
thirty thirty-one thirty-two...  "fifty-twelve" for sixty-two is weird, but
not as weird as "forty-twenty-two"?)



    *Muke!  (who needs to figure out how to handle Kaðuhanne numbers beyond
ten)