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- Main article: Memniq
This page gives an extensive description of Memniq morphological features.
Numerals
The numeral system relies on a mixed system of decimal base and a vigesimal base.
The first ten cardinal numbers are noun-like forms on their own:
| țe̥ʔu | |
| iʔẙq | |
| emqi̥ | |
| anḁ̈ŕ | |
| fḁ̈nu | |
| yťŕḁ̈ | |
| iħśü̥ | |
| ʔe̥ći | |
| ḁtjö | |
| po̥ʔi |
Numerals from 11 to 17 are built with the construction po̥ʔi + NUM:
| poʔițe̥ʔu | |
| poʔiʔẙq | |
| poʔemqi̥ | |
| poʔanḁ̈ŕ | |
| poʔyťŕḁ̈ | |
| poʔifḁ̈nu | |
| poʔiħśü̥ |
As it can be seen, if the numeral begins with a vowel, the final vowel of po̥ʔi is dropped.
Numerals 18 and 19 are irregularly built from the numeral 20:
| iʔquʔḁ̥tru | |
| țeʔuʔḁtru |
The numerals for 20 is a noun-like form on their own:
| ʔḁtru |
Numerals for 30, 50, 70 and 90 are built with the construction i̥pʔa + NUM:
| ipʔemqi̥ | |
| ipʔafḁ̈nu | |
| ipʔiħśü̥ | |
| ipʔḁtjö |
As it can be seen, if the numeral begins with a vowel, the final vowel of i̥pʔa is dropped.
Numerals for 40, 60 and 80 are built with the construction ʔtḁr + 2 / 3 / 4:
| ʔtariʔẙq | |
| ʔtaremqi̥ | |
| ʔtaranḁ̈ŕ |
The numerals for (one) hundred and (one) thousand are noun-like forms on their own:
| u̥ncu | |
| ëțnẙt |
The numerals for the multiples of hundreds and thousands are built with the construction NUM + ɳāt́əwt́əw/ liəʔāt́əw, with some irregularities:
| ʔakiəɳāt́əwt́əw | ʔakiəliəʔāt́əw | |
| miəkōɳāt́əwt́əw | miəkōliəʔāt́əw | |
| gōleɳāt́əwt́əw | gōleliəʔāt́əw | |
| ṕāgeɳāt́əwt́əw | ṕāgeliəʔāt́əw | |
| ðūlaɳāt́əwt́əw | ðūlaliəʔāt́əw | |
| haʂəɳāt́əwt́əw | haʂəliəʔāt́əw | |
| ḱəwʔeɳāt́əwt́əw | ḱəwʔeliəʔāt́əw | |
| ʈōjəwɳāt́əwt́əw | ʈōjəwliəʔāt́əw |
All cardinal numerals up to these forms are meant as invariable.
The numeral for “million” is a loanword. Numbers above the millions have no name and are specified by the lesser numerals.
| t́ənt |
This form is treated as a regularly declinable noun:
| miəkō t́əntəno | |
| ʔatrū ṕāge t́əntəno |
If this numeral is used as a simple count form, it is declined in the passive case. Inside of a structured sentence, it is declined according the case required by its syntactical role. Nouns adjoining such numerals are introduced by the preposition čɛl and are declined in the ablative case.
ʔakiə t́əntəxəno fūkarano to two millions people
Composite numbers are built by just putting them beside, without any conjunction, in descending order:
- 1985: liəʔā ʈōjəwɳāt́əwt́əw gōleʔatrūt́əw ṕāge
Ordinal numerals are formed by adding the ordinal ending -lo to the cardinal numeral form, with an irregular suppletive form:
| roɕdu | |
| ogidu | |
| migōdu | |
| nōhdu | |
| čōndu | |
| θūhadu | |
| hoɕedu | |
| šudu | |
| cōjudu | |
| fēwdu | |
| ɕōwfēwdu | |
| ogifēwdu | |
| ogifēwtujdu | |
| ogifēwtujdu | |
| θūhafēwtunudu |
The ordinal numeral for “millionth” is regularly formed from its corresponding cardinal forms, by adding the epenthetic vowel -ə-, while its multiples are formed by unifying the separated forms in an only adjectival word:
| t́əntəlo | |
| miəkōt́əntəlo |
If the numeral form is composite, the ending is added only to the last numeral form:
- 25th: ʔatrū ṕāgelo
