Counting in Angos

Language overview

Forty-two in Angos Angos (artificial language, from ango, language, and -s, the artificial/constructed aspect marker) is an a posteriori international auxiliary language developed since 2011. It is designed to be minimalistic in terms of grammar, and international in terms of sounds and vocabulary. It is a noun-based language, with an SVO word order. Angos counts about 800 root words which form the base for a 3,000+ word vocabulary. Its vocabulary is based for 14% on Latin languages (Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Latin), 13% Germanic (English, German, Nordic), 11% Macro-Altaic (Turkish, Japanese, Korean), 9% Slavic (Russian, Polish, Czech, Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian), 9% Semitic (Arabic, Hebrew), and has many other influences, including Greek, Hungarian, Malay, Swahili…

Angos numbers list

  • 1 – ayn
  • 2 – don
  • 3 – tin
  • 4 – kan
  • 5 – ken
  • 6 – sen
  • 7 – sun
  • 8 – okon
  • 9 – nowan
  • 10 – den
  • 11 – den-ayn
  • 12 – den-don
  • 13 – den-tin
  • 14 – den-kan
  • 15 – den-ken
  • 16 – den-sen
  • 17 – den-sun
  • 18 – den-okon
  • 19 – den-nowan
  • 20 – don-den
  • 30 – tin-den
  • 40 – kan-den
  • 50 – ken-den
  • 60 – sen-den
  • 70 – sun-den
  • 80 – okon-den
  • 90 – nowan-den
  • 100 – syen
  • 1,000 – syon

Angos numbering rules

Now that you’ve had a gist of the most useful numbers, let’s move to the writing rules for the tens, the compound numbers, and why not the hundreds, the thousands and beyond (if possible).

  • Digits from zero to nine are rendered by specific words, namely nun [0], ayn [1], don [2], tin [3], kan [4], ken [5], sen [6], sun [7], okon [8], and nowan [9].
  • Tens are formed starting with the multiplier digit, linked with a hyphen to the word for ten (den), except for ten itself: den [10], don-den [20], tin-den [30], kan-den [40], ken-den [50], sen-den [60], sun-den [70], okon-den [80], and nowan-den [90].
  • Compound numbers are formed linking the ten and the unit with a hypen (eg.: den-ayn [11], tin-den-okon [38], sun-den-tin [73]).
  • Hundreds are formed starting with the multiplier digit, linked with a hyphen to the word for hundred (syen), except for one hundred where it is optional: (ayn-)syen [100], don-syen [200], tin-syen [300], kan-syen [400], ken-syen [500], sen-syen [600], sun-syen [700], okon-syen [800], and nowan-syen [900].
  • Thousands are formed starting with the multiplier digit, linked with a hyphen to the word for thousand (syon), except for one thousand where it is optional: (ayn-)syon [1,000], don-syon [2,000], tin-syon [3,000], kan-syon [4,000], ken-syon [5,000], sen-syon [6,000], sun-syon [7,000], okon-syon [8,000], and nowan-syon [9,000].
  • Higher scale numbers are: eseon [million, 106], ospen [billion, 109], ohanen [trillion, 1012], lanun [quadrillion, 1015].

Write a number in full in Angos

Let’s move now to the practice of the numbering rules in Angos. Will you guess how to write a number in full? Enter a number and try to write it down in your head, or maybe on a piece of paper, before displaying the result.

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Auxiliary languages

Afrihili, Angos, Ba kom, Babm, Bolak, Ceqli, Digisk Folkspraak, Esperanto, Folkspraak, Globasa, Glosa, Guosa, Idiom neutral, Ido, Intal, Interlingua, Interlingue, Interslavic, Kotava, Langue nouvelle, Latinesce, Latino sine flexione, Lingua Franca Nova, Lingwa de planeta, Mondial, Mondlango, Neolatin, Nove Latina, Pandunia, Panglobish, Ro, Romanid, Slovio, Solresol, Sona, Spokil, Stœchiophonie, Tutonish, Universalglot, Uropi, and Volapük.

Other supported languages

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