le ku
|
‘eleven’
|
|
lenyi
|
‘twelve’
|
leo
|
‘fifteen’
|
|
lexkoa
|
‘nineteen’
|
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| Multiples of thousand are formed by adding
- lalya* ‘1000’ with respective numerals. |
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|
The ordinal numeral (i.e., the numeral
which indicates ‘which one’ in the sequence) is formed by adding ‘ni‘
to the basic numeral. These numerals follow the headnoun. |
myu anyin
|
‘second man’
|
myu hi n
|
‘third man’
|
|
pota taye
|
‘first book’
|
pota tapin
|
‘fourth book’
|
pota taon
|
‘fifth book’
|
pota nyixahela
taye
|
‘the 21st book’
|
pota nyixahela
tayini
|
‘the 22nd book’
|
|
|
| The numerals, one and multiples of ‘ten’
will not take ‘n‘
and instead take ‘he’ to form ordinal numerals. ‘he’ is in free variation
with ‘e’. |
lae
|
‘100th’
|
hi
xa
he
|
‘30th’
|
|
taye
|
‘first’
|
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|
| When ‘saye’ is added
to a numeral, it will express the meaning ‘each’ as exemplified below
: |
nyi
k alyi
lyinyi saye da
|
we (two) pos. pig two each
exist
|
|
‘we (two) have two pigs each’
|
|
m lu
milaja
pe soli
saye bulakendo
|
tehy all pen three each take-mod.
|
|
‘they all can take three pens
each’
|
|
|
|
The form ‘hemikane’ is
added to the adjective numeral to indicate how many fold of the original. |
sika anye hemkane
|
this two fold
|
|
‘twice of this’
|
|
sika hie
hemkane
|
this three fold
|
|
‘thrice of this’
|
|
|
|
| The collective numeral which
indicates a set or subset is formed by adding ‘xi’ to the numeral
adjective or quantifier. |
hime milaja
xi
|
‘all of the boys’
|
hime hie
xi
|
‘three of the boys’
|
mlu
tae
xi
|
‘some of them’
|
|
|
| There are different lexical
items to indicate the fractions which vary depending on the shape
of the subject. For example, if the object is a long one, - tatu ‘half’
is used. If the object is a round one, - pace ‘half’ is used. Uncountable
objects take - tace ‘half’. Other fractions are derived from the unit
‘half’. |
