Re: numbers from your conlangs (by: Benct Philip Jonsson)

From: janko gorenc

> I'm collecting numbers from various languages.
> Could you please send me numbers from 1 to 10 in your
> conlangs. Thank you for your assistance.
> Janko Gorenc.
So far, all I have are the root words for 1-7 for Tech, all based on
Bomhard's Nostratic roots:

ts@l-, tsal- "zero" (< "empty")
ki-, ke- "one" (< "alone")
b@n`-, ban`- "two" (< "twist, join")
m@?-, ma?- "three" (< "increase, many")
k@p-, kap- "four" (< "hand")
p@l-, pal- "five" (< "thumb")
suks-, soks- "six"
s@b, sab- "seven"

Hey at least I can do octal numbers!

I'll probably end up ripping off Afro-Asiatic (or at least Semitic),
Indo-European and Kartvelian for the rest.

[*C> = ejective; non-ejective voiceless stops/affricates are aspirated]

The high and low vowel variants have to do with inflection (Ablaut), and I'm
far away from figuring out all the grammar yet.

Tech will have a vigintesimal number system along the lines of Welsh and
Georgian, where sixty is "threescore" (but hundred is still "hundred", not
"fivescore").

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