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THE NUMERALS
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100. 200. 300. 1000. 1,000,000. a# cans. tryhans. mil. milvil or milyon.

CARDINAL

  • 20. igans. 2oth.
  • 21. dnen war igans. 2ist.
  • 22. deu war igans, etc. 22nd.
  • 30. deg war igans. 3th.
  • 31. idnak war igans, 3*st. etc.
  • 40. deugans. 4oth.
  • 50. deg war deugans 5oth.

(or hanter cans}.

  • 60. trj> igans. 6oth.
  • 70. deg war try igans yoth.

or try igans ha deg.

  • 80. pajer igans. Both.
  • 90. deg war pajer goth.


igans or pajer igans ha deg. looth. 2Ooth. 3Ooth. loooth. millionth.


ORDINAL

igansves. kensa war igans. nessa war igans, etc. degves war igans. idn-dhegves war igans, etc. deugansves. degves war deu- gans try-igansves. degves war try- igans or tri igans ha degves. pajer-igansves. degves war pajer- igansves or pajer igans ha degves. cansves. deu cansves. tryhansves. milves. milvilves.


When compound numbers are used, the noun follows the first of them. Thus:-

try igans bledhan ha deg, 70 years (threescore years and ten), or deg bledhan war tr$ igans.

Larger compounds are made somewhat as in English. Thus A.D. 1904 is Bledhan agan Arledh nownjak cans ha pajer.

The later lists of ordinal numbers usually have vas for the termination, but the practice of the older MSS., the analogy of Welsh and Breton, and the very definite