Re: Numerical suffixes - How to use them

Hi!

Teoh wrote:
> Cool system. Now I can talk about my collection of Rubik's cube-like
> puzzles with cool names like sidilar cubes, the sidite tetrahedron,
> the sidant Skewb Diamond, the sidalium Megaminx, and that sidalant
> beauty that I shall soon receive in the mail.  :-P
>
> Won't it be cool if a conlang used these compounding suffixes for its
> plural nouns and no separate number words?
Definitely! :-)

Andrew wrote:
> I'm glad you like it, it's been forming in my mind for a while, but somehow
> the suffixes I came up with didn't quite sound right. I know it's not
> strictly speaking a conlang as is, but certainly the idea of numerical
> suffixes is applicable to a conlang, and I'd be interested to see what you
> come up with, Teoh. I guess the suffixes as they are would fit best with an
> English-sounding conlang, but different suffixes might sound better with
> other systems.
I once had in mind implementing a suffix number system in my earliest
conlang, Fukhian.  However, I did not do it there, although it was
agglutinating, so affix numbers would fit into that system.

Tyl-Sjok was isolating, so I did not find it feasible there, either.
However, the Tyl-Sjok number system I came up with is currently my
ideal breakdown of numbers, so I decided that the basic system will go
into Qthen|gai, too.

And because Qthen|gai is polysynthetic, it is the perfect place for a
suffix system, I thought.

These plans are there for quite a while now, so maybe the current
thread is a good opportunity for me to complete the Qthen|gai number
system.  As soon as it's ready, I'll announce it. :-)

(An interim conlang project, S4, was also going to have suffixed
numbers, but the project is currently frozen.)

> As for me, I'm thinking of doing a con-chemistry project.
Interesting!  Only Fukhian had some few names for elements and
chemical classes (and they are logically wrong.  Which is ok, of
course, since it's a language... :-)).  Oh, Qthen|gai has 'sulfur',
but that's currently all.

> Turkish numbers sound good here: Z = 1 = hydrogen = birium, Z = 2 = helium
> = ucium /oochium/, Z = 3 = lithium = ikium, etc. I'll post it when I think
> of something.
Hmm, isn't 2=iki and 3=üç?

**Henrik