Numeral
Cardinals
20 consonants or semivowels
- 10 pairs: nm pb td kg sz cq fv xh rl jw (1x nasal, 3x plosive, 4x fricative, 1x other, 1x semivowel)
Sound values:
- c = English sh (IPA: [ʃ])
- q = English zh (IPA: [ʒ])
- y = IPA [ə]
- all other as in IPA.
20 base numerals from 0 to 19:
- monosyllabic, format CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant)
- C1: unique in first letter
- V: vowels in order o-a-e-i
- C2: third letter one of the first letters from the seven pairs: nm pb td kg sz fv rl; pairs cq hx jw not used
- C2: third letter for numerals next to each other differs
- V-C2: unique in combination of second and third letter [! currently not fulfilled]
- C1-C2: first and third letter differ [! currently not fulfilled]
- optimized for different bases: 2, 8 (octal), 12 (duodecimal), 16 (hexadecimal), allowing up to base 20 (vigesimal)
| base 2 (binary) |
base 10 (decimal) |
base 16 (hexadecimal) |
C1 | V1 | C2 | Chem. el. name (English) | Chem. el. symbol | Chem. el. name (systematic) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 | 0 | n | o | l | - | - | - |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | m | a | n | Hydrogen | Nm | Nomaum |
| 10 | 2 | 2 | b | e | t | Helium | Nb | Nobeum |
| 11 | 3 | 3 | d | i | r | Lithium | Nd | Nodium |
| 100 | 4 | 4 | g | o | t | Beryllium | Ng | Nogoum |
| 101 | 5 | 5 | v | a | r | Boron | Nv | Novaum |
| 110 | 6 | 6 | z | e | s | Carbon | Nz | Nozeum |
| 111 | 7 | 7 | q | i | p | Nitrogen | Nq | Noqium |
| 1000 | 8 | 8 | h | o | k | Oxygen | Nh | Nohoum |
| 1001 | 9 | 9 | p | a | f | Fluorin | Np | Nopaum |
| 1010 | 10 | A | t | e | k | Neon | Nt | Noteum |
| 1011 | 11 | B | k | i | n | Sodium | Nk | Nokium |
| 1100 | 12 | C | f | o | p | Magnesium | Nf | Nofoum |
| 1101 | 13 | D | s | a | s | Aluminium | Ns | Nosaum |
| 1110 | 14 | E | c | e | p | Silicon | Nc | Noceum |
| 1111 | 15 | F | x | i | s | Phosphorus | Nx | Noxium |
| 10000 | 16 | 10 | l | o | f | Sulfur | Mn | Manoum |
| 10001 | 17 | 11 | r | a | t | Chlorine | Mm | Mamaum |
| 10010 | 18 | 12 | j | e | f | Argon | Mb | Mabeum |
| 10011 | 19 | 13 | w | i | k | Potassium | Mt | Matium |
| 10100 | 20 | 14 | Calcium | Mk | Makoum | |||
| 10101 | 21 | 15 | Scandium | Ms | Masaum | |||
| 10110 | 22 | 16 | Titanium | Mc | Maceum | |||
| 10111 | 23 | 17 | Vanadium | Ms | Masium | |||
| 11000 | 24 | 18 | Chromium | Ml | Maloum | |||
| 10000000 | 128 | 80 | Unbioctium | Ln | Lonoum | |||
| 11111111 | 255 | FF | Bipentpentium | Rr | Ririum |
Ordinal-ero first manero second betero third direro fourth gotero fifth zarero |
?- primary manari secondary betari tertiary dirari quaternary gotari quinary zarari |
Multiplier-upe onefold single manupe twofold double betupe threefold triple dirupe |
Distributive-ari unary manari binary betari ternary dirari |
Fraction-? ? man- half bet- third dir- |
Elements-um Hydrogen maum Helium beum Lithium dium Beryllium gaum Boron zaum |
External links
- http://www.omniglot.com/language/numbers/ials.htm
- http://www.zompist.com/numbers.shtml - "Numbers from 1 to 10 in Over 5000 Languages"