Counting in West Frisian

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Language overview

West Frisian (Frysk) is a language that belongs to the Indo-European family, in the germanic group. Official language of the province of Friesland, in the Netherlands (alongside with Dutch), it counts about 600,000 speakers.

West Frisian numbering rules

Digits and numbers from zero to twelve are specific words: nul [0], ien [1], twa [2], trije [3], fjouwer [4], fiif [5], seis [6], sân [7], acht [8], njoggen [9], tsien [10], alve [11], and tolve [12].
From thirteen to nineteen, the numbers are formed from the matching unit digits, adding the word for ten (tjin) at the end: trettjin [13], fjirtjin [14], fyftjin [15], sechtjin [16], santjin [17], achttjin [18], and njoggentjin [19].
The tens are formed by adding the suffix -tich at the end of the multiplier digit, with the exception of ten: tsien [10], tweintich [20], tritich [30], fjirtich [40], fyftich [50], sechtich [60], santich [70], tachtich [80], and njoggentich [90].
From twenty-one to ninety-nine, the tens and units are joined with the word -en- (and), but the unit is said before the ten (e.g.: ien-en-tritich [31], fiif-en-fjirtich [45]).
Hundred (hûndert) and thousand (tûzen) are not separated from their multiplier by a space (e.g.: twahûndert [200], trijetûzen [3,000], tsientûzen [10,000]).
The West Frisian language uses the long scale for big numbers where every new word greater than a million is one million times bigger than the previous term. Thus we have ien miljoen (10⁶, one million), ien miljard (10⁹, the US billion), and ien biljoen (10¹², a thousand US billions).

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Numbers list

1 – ien
2 – twa
3 – trije
4 – fjouwer
5 – fiif
6 – seis
7 – sân
8 – acht
9 – njoggen

10 – tsien
11 – alve
12 – tolve
13 – trettjin
14 – fjirtjin
15 – fyftjin
16 – sechtjin
17 – santjin
18 – achttjin

19 – njoggentjin
20 – tweintich
30 – tritich
40 – fjirtich
50 – fyftich
60 – sechtich
70 – santich
80 – tachtich
90 – njoggentich

100 – hûndert
1,000 – tûzen
one million – ien miljoen
one billion – ien miljard
one trillion – ien biljoen

West Germanic languages

Afrikaans, Alsatian, Bavarian, English, German, Luxembourgish, North Frisian, Pennsylvania German, Plautdietsch, Saterland Frisian, Swiss German, and West Frisian.

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