Re: Maggel

En réponse à Elliott Lash :


>Like in Scottish Gaelic:
>
>aon taigh "one house"
>
>but a h-aon "one, the number one"
Hey, I actually *didn't* know that!!! Great! I actually like the fact that 
I reinvented a feature happeing in Gaelic! :))

>and so on:
>
>da\ "two"  >  a dha\ "the number two"
>tri\ "three" > a tri\ "the number three"
>ceithir > a ceithir
>co\ig > a co\ig
>sia > a sia
>seachd > a seachd
>ochd > a h-ochd
>naoi > a naoi
>deich > a deich
The funny part is that it is opposite in Maggel. For many numerals, the 
main difference between the declarative and combined forms is that the 
declarative form *doesn't* have the article, while the combined form has it 
:)) .

examples: (declarative form first, followed by combined form, 
pronunciations in CXS)
gho  ['ho:]  "the number one",   a ghho  [@'Co:]  "one"
snah ['znaI] "the number two",   a hznao [@'4na:] "two"
tehg ['TEM\] "the number three", a htehg [@'CEM\] "three"
ideeir   ['t9x],    a ihdeeir   [@'x9x]
fomd     ['fO~],    a hfomd     [@'wO~]
gsie     ['ksi],    a ghsie     [@'4i:]
saib     ['s&p],    a saihb     [@'s&T]
jbone    ['SoUn],   a hjbone    [@'GboUn]
tiuotajm ['TyT@~N], a tiuohtajm [@'TyC@~N]
ignuil   [kNur],    a nuig      [@'nuk]

I stop here because my fingers begin to hurt, but don't guess that Maggel 
is base-10 :) . It's base-20, with substractive counting (sometimes 
mandatory, sometimes optional) for one, two or three under a score :) .

Christophe Grandsire.

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