Counting in Bayën

Language overview

Forty-two in Bayën Bayën is a constructed language designed by the linguist Margaret Ransdell-Green for her constructed world of Aeniith, a conlang world where she develops various species with their biology, culture, music, and of course languages. Bayën is the language of the Bayë, a group of social humanoids. It counts five dialects, including the most widely spoken Bayënfrinna, or Bayën. Highly agglutinative language, Bayën has a declension system of nine cases, five tenses, five aspects, three voices, and three modes. With their six-fingered hands, the Bayë count in base 6.

Due to lack of data, we can only count accurately up to 100 in Bayën. Please contact me if you can help me counting up from that limit.

Bayën numbers list

  • 1 – na
  • 2 – mis
  • 3 – la
  • 4 – wor
  • 5 – mjel
  • 6 – θess
  • 7 – θessna
  • 8 – θessmis
  • 9 – θessla
  • 10 – θesswor
  • 11 – θessmjel
  • 12 – misθess
  • 13 – misθessna
  • 14 – misθessmis
  • 15 – misθessla
  • 16 – misθesswor
  • 17 – misθessmjel
  • 18 – laθess
  • 19 – laθessna
  • 20 – laθessmis
  • 30 – mjelθess
  • 40 – θessθesswor
  • 50 – θessmisθessmis
  • 60 – θessworθess
  • 70 – θessmjelθesswor
  • 80 – misθessnaθessmis
  • 90 – misθesslaθess
  • 100 – misθessmjelθess
  • 1,000 – θesswor misθesseworθess

Bayën 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 one to six are na [1], mis [2], la [3], wor [4], mjel [5], and θess [6].
  • From seven to eleven, numbers are formed adding the additive unit to six, with no space: θessna [7] (6+1), θessmis [8] (6+2), θessla [9] (6+3), θesswor [10] (6+4), and θessmjel [11] (6+5).
  • The senary (or base-6) tens are: misθess [12] (2*6), laθess [18] (3*6), worθess [24] (4*6), mjelθess [30] (5*6), θessθess [36] (6*6), θessnaθess [42] (7*6), θessmisθess [48] (8*6), θesslaθess [54] (9*6), θessworθess [60] (10*6), θessmjelθess [66] (11*6), misθessθess [72] (12*6), misθessnaθess [78] (13*6), θessworθess [84] (14*6), misθesslaθess [90] (15*6), misθessworθess [96] (16*6), and misθessmjelθess [102] (17*6).
  • Senary compound numbers are formed adding the additive unit to the base-6 ten, with no space (e.g.: worθessna [25] (4*6+1), θessθessmis [38] (6*6+2)).
  • The word for one hundred is misθessworθesswor [100], litterally meaning (2*6+4)*6+4.
  • Two hundred is expressed as mislekiir misθessworθesswor [200], from mislekiir, which means two of itself, hence here two times one hundred.
  • One thousand is θesswor misθessworθesswor [1,000] (10*100).
  • Two thousands is expressed using mislekiir too: mislekiir θesswor misθessworθesswor [2,000].
  • We can note that this system is senary at its core, but influenced by the decimal numeration, which can be explained by the influence of other racial groups of Aeniith who use a decimal system.

Source

Other artistic languages

Aczu Śavnecze, Aramteskan, Arodjun, Atlantean, Atrian, Ayeri, Azazilúŝ, Barsoomian, Bayën, Belter Creole, Brooding, Chakobsa, Dai, Dovahzul, D’ni, Elder Speech, Engála, Epigean, Giak, Gnóma, Grayis, Gryomian, Hiuʦɑθ, Hylian, Illitan, Ithkuil, Itláni, Kala, Kēlen, Kiitra, KiLiKi, Láadan, Mini, Mondir, Na’vi, Neziba, Nìmpyèshiu, Santaa, Shiväisith, Siinyamda, Toki Pona, Tpaalha, Trigedasleng, Tsevhu, Tüchte, Va Ehenív, Valthungian, Verdurian, Wardwesân, and Wóxtjanato.

Other supported languages

As the other currently supported languages are too numerous to list extensively here, please select a language from the full list of supported languages.