Lindiga numbers
Lindiga uses the decimal system exclusively. Even such things as angles, traditionally measured in degrees, minutes, and seconds, are measured in decimal fractions, with 100 "decimal degrees" in a full circle. Here are the basic words for cardinal numbers in Lindiga:
- 0: ngerli [ˈŋɛɭi]
- 1: rsai [ˈʂɛi]
- 2: koti [ˈkɔtʃi]
- 3ː miti [ˈmitʃi]
- 4: siři [ˈʃiɽi]
- 5: ngworsi [ˈŋwɔʐi]
- 6: issi [ˈʔiʃːi]
- 7: chaski [ˈxɑski]
- 8: pasi [ˈpɑʒi]
- 9: ykki [ˈʔʉkːi]
- 10: kie [ˈkiə]
- 100: vřêngi [ˈfɽeŋi]
- 10,000: rtlyrsi [ˈɬ̢ʉʐi]
Numbers greater than ten are produced by adding jai (and) between the basic digit and a multiple of ten, with the basic digit first: for example, 42 is "two and four tens", or koti jai kiesiři [ˌkɔʧi jɛi kiəˈʒiɽi]. Kiesiři is short for kie siři, and is pronounced as a single word. Note that the stress falls on the final root, not the prefix kie-. Since Lindiga has no basic word for "thousand": this number is expressed as "ten hundred" (vřêngi kie) in Lindiga. In general, numbers are read from left to right, with pauses between the hundreds, so a number like "123,456" would be translated as rtlyrsi koti jai kie, vřêngi siři jai kiemiti, issi jai kiengworsi.
