How to count in Choapan Zapotec

Enter a number and read it spelled out in Choapan Zapotec.

Language overview

Choapan Zapotec, also known as Comaltepec Zapotec, is a Zapotecan language from the Oto-Manguean languages family spoken in north central Oaxaca and Veracruz, Mexico, by about 12,000 speakers.
Due to lack of data, we can only count accurately up to 999 in Choapan Zapotec. Please contact us if you can help us counting up from that limit.

Choapan Zapotec numbering rules

  • Digits from one to nine are specific words: tu [1], chopa [2], tzona [3], tapa [4], ga’yo’ [5], xopa [6], gadyi [7], xuna’ [8], and ga [9].
  • The word for ten is chi. Numbers from eleven to nineteen are quite irregular, namely: chiptu [11] (contraction of chi be tu, 10+1), chipchopa [12] (contraction of chi be chopa, 10+2), chi’nnu [13], chi’da’ [14], chi’no’ [15], chi’no’ be tu [16] (15+1), chi’no’ be chopa [17] (15+2), chi’no be tzona [18] (15+1), and tu galo [19] (20-1).
  • Choapan Zapotec uses the vigesimal system, hence the tens are formed on the words for ten and twenty, namely: chi [10], galo [20], galo be chi [30] (20+10), chopa galo [40] (2*20), chopa galo chi [50] (2*20 + 10), tzona galo [60] (3*20), tzona galo chi [70] (3*20 + 10), tapa galo [80] (4*20), and tapa galo chi [90] (4*20 + 10).
  • When composed, numbers from twenty-one to twenty-nine are formed by saying the word for twenty (galo), then the word be (plus) and the digit (e.g.: galo be tu [21], galo be ga’yo’ [25]). From thirty-one to ninety-nine, the word be disappears (e.g.: galo be chi xopa [36], tzona galo tzona [63]).
  • Hundreds are formed by saying the multiplier digit before the word for hundred (gayua): tu gayua [100], chopa gayua [200], tzona gayua [300]…

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Numbers list

1 – tu
2 – chopa
3 – tzona
4 – tapa
5 – ga’yo’
6 – xopa
7 – gadyi
8 – xuna’
9 – ga
10 – chi
11 – chiptu
12 – chipchopa
13 – chi’nnu
14 – chi’da’
15 – chi’no’
16 – chi’no’ be tu
17 – chi’no’ be chopa
18 – chi’no be tzona
19 – tu galo
20 – galo
30 – galo be chi
40 – chopa galo
50 – chopa galo chi
60 – tzona galo
70 – tzona galo chi
80 – tapa galo
90 – tapa galo chi
100 – tu gayua

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