Counting in Crimean Tatar

Language overview

Forty-two in Crimean Tatar Crimean Tatar (Къырым тили in Cyrillic, transliterated in Qırım tili in Latin alphabet) belongs to the Turkic language family, more specifically to the Kipchak branch. Official language in the Russian Republic of Crimea and in the city of Sevastopol, it is a recognised minority language in Ukraine and Romania. The Crimean Tatar language counts about 480,000 speakers, and can be written in Cyrillic and Latin script (it used to be written in Arabic script until 1928).

Crimean Tatar numbers list

  • 1 – бир (bir)
  • 2 – эки (eki)
  • 3 – учь (üç)
  • 4 – дёрт (dört)
  • 5 – беш (beş)
  • 6 – алты (altı)
  • 7 – еди (yedi)
  • 8 – секиз (sekiz)
  • 9 – докъуз (doquz)
  • 10 – он (on)
  • 11 – он бир (on bir)
  • 12 – он эки (on eki)
  • 13 – он учь (on üç)
  • 14 – он дёрт (on dört)
  • 15 – он беш (on beş)
  • 16 – он алты (on altı)
  • 17 – он еди (on yedi)
  • 18 – он секиз (on sekiz)
  • 19 – он докъуз (on doquz)
  • 20 – йигирми (yigirmi)
  • 30 – отуз (otuz)
  • 40 – къыркъ (qırq)
  • 50 – элли (elli)
  • 60 – алтмыш (altmış)
  • 70 – етмиш (yetmiş)
  • 80 – сексен (seksen)
  • 90 – докъсан (doqsan)
  • 100 – юз (yüz)
  • 1,000 – бинъ (biñ)
  • one million – миллион (million)

Crimean Tatar 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 numbers, namely сыфыр (sıfır) [0], бир or быр (bir) [1], эки (eki) [2], учь (üç) [3], дёрт (dört) [4], беш (beş) [5], алты (altı) [6], еди or йеды (yedi) [7], секиз or секыз (sekiz) [8], and докъуз (doquz) [9].
  • Tens have specific names from ten to fifty, and names based on the multiplier digit root from sixty to ninety: он (on) [10], йигирми (yigirmi) [20], отуз (otuz) [30], къыркъ (qırq) [40], элли (elli) [50], алтмыш (altmış) [60], етмиш or йетмыш (yetmiş) [70], сексен (seksen) [80], and докъсан (doqsan) [90].
  • Compound numbers are formed by stating the ten, then the unit separated with a space (e.g.: он секиз, on sekiz [18], йигирми дёрт, yigirmi dört [24]).
  • Hundreds are formed by stating the multiplier digit before the word for hundred (юз, yüz), separated with a space, except for one hundred: юз or йуз (yüz) [100], эки юз (eki yüz) [200], учь юз (üç yüz) [300], дёрт юз (dört yüz) [400], беш юз (beş yüz) [500], алты юз (altı yüz) [600], еди юз (yedi yüz) [700], секиз юз (sekiz yüz) [800], and докъуз юз (doquz yüz) [900].
  • Thousands are formed by stating the multiplier digit before the word for thousand (бинъ, biñ), separated with a space, except for one thousand: бинъ (biñ) [1,000], эки бинъ (eki biñ) [2,000], учь бинъ (üç biñ) [3,000], дёрт бинъ (dört biñ) [4,000], беш бинъ (beş biñ) [5,000], алты бинъ (altı biñ) [6,000], еди бинъ (yedi biñ) [7,000], секиз бинъ (sekiz biñ) [8,000], and докъуз бинъ (doquz biñ) [9,000].
  • The word for million is миллион (million), and the word for billion, миллиард (milliard).

Write a number in full in Crimean Tatar

Let’s move now to the practice of the numbering rules in Crimean Tatar. 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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