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Re: Carrajena numbers



 --- Adam Walker skrzypszy: 

> Here are the ordinals and cardinals 1-20 and the
> decades thence to 100 with 1000 and a possible
> 1,000,000 thrown in for good measure. < snip >

Cool. Gratefully added to my collection. I especially like "parradjina"!
 
> I'm not sure about that last one.  It could change.
> And I don't like the fact that both four and fourth
> are parru, but I'm not sure what to do about that.

Well, I don't really see what's wrong with that. My guess is that in 99,9 % of
the cases the context will make clear whether the cardinal or the ordinal is
meant. After all, the cardinal would be normally be followed by a plural, and
the ordinal by a singular, right?

 --- Padraic Brown skrzypszy:

> Why do anything about it!? ;) How are chimvi and
> findu related, if at all?

Probably in the same way as French "cinq" and "quinze" are related. ;))

Jan

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