How to count in Mapudungun

Enter a number and read it spelled out in Mapudungun.

Language overview

The Mapudungun language (Mapuzugun), also known as Mapudungu, Mapuche, or Araucanian, belongs to the Araucanian family of the South American Indian languages family, while being sometimes considered as a language isolate too. Spoken in south-central Chile and west central Argentina by the Mapuche people, it counts about 200,000 speakers.
Due to lack of data, we can only count accurately up to 9,999 in Mapudungun. Please contact us if you can help us counting up from that limit.

Mapudungun numbering rules

  • Digits from zero to nine are specific words, namely sero [0], kiñe [1], epu [2], küla [3], meli [4], kechu [5], kayu [6], reqle [7], pura [8], and aylla [9].
  • The tens are built by putting the ten multiplier digit before the word for ten (mari), except for ten itself: mari [10], epu mari [20], küla mari [30], meli mari [40], kechu mari [50]…
  • The compound numbers are built by following the ten by the unit, separated with a space (e.g.: küla mari kechu [35], reqle mari pura [78]).
  • The word for hundred is pataka, one thousand is warangka: both are loan words from Quechua. Compound numbers with hundreds and thousands are built by setting the multiplier, then a space and the scale name, but can be omitted when the multiplier is one (e.g.: (kiñe) pataka [100], epu pataka [200], (kiñe) warangka [1,000], epu warangka mari [2,010]).

Books

Numbers list

1 – kiñe
2 – epu
3 – küla
4 – meli
5 – kechu
6 – kayu
7 – reqle
8 – pura
9 – aylla
10 – mari
11 – mari kiñe
12 – mari epu
13 – mari küla
14 – mari meli
15 – mari kechu
16 – mari kayu
17 – mari reqle
18 – mari pura
19 – mari aylla
20 – epu mari
30 – küla mari
40 – meli mari
50 – kechu mari
60 – kayu mari
70 – reqle mari
80 – pura mari
90 – aylla mari
100 – kiñe pataka
1,000 – kiñe warangka

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