Counting in Mini

Language overview

Forty-two in Mini Mini, the minimal language, is an attempt to create the simplest naturalistic language for human communication. This conlang has simple phonetics, inflectionless grammar, and a global vocabulary of exactly 1,000 words. It has been designed by S.C. Gruget in 2020. It is by essence a creole language, with its vocabulary mostly based on English and Romance languages, but also Arabic, Farsi, Hindi, Lakota, Hungarian, Tamil, Russian, Turkish, Swahili, Nahuatl, Malay, Japanese, Mandarin, German, Swedish, Yoruba, and others, including other conlangs like Glosa, Esperanto, Pandunia and Globasa. If it may sound reminescent of Toki Pona, a subset of it, Mini Kore, is even closer to it, with only 120 words.

Mini numbers list

  • 1 – uno
  • 2 – duo
  • 3 – san
  • 4 – fo
  • 5 – penta
  • 6 – sita
  • 7 – seven
  • 8 – ba
  • 9 – nin
  • 10 – ten
  • 11 – ten uno
  • 12 – ten duo
  • 13 – ten san
  • 14 – ten fo
  • 15 – ten penta
  • 16 – ten sita
  • 17 – ten seven
  • 18 – ten ba
  • 19 – ten nin
  • 20 – duo ten
  • 30 – san ten
  • 40 – fo ten
  • 50 – penta ten
  • 60 – sita ten
  • 70 – seven ten
  • 80 – ba ten
  • 90 – nin ten
  • 100 – sento
  • 1,000 – kilo

Mini 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 nulo [0], uno [1], duo [2], san [3], fo [4], penta [5], sita [6], seven [7], ba [8], and nin [9].
  • Tens are formed starting with the multiplier unit, followed by the word for ten (ten), separated with a space, except for ten itself: ten [10], duo ten [20], san ten [30], fo ten [40], penta ten [50], sita ten [60], seven ten [70], ba ten [80], and nin ten [90].
  • Compound numbers are formed starting with the ten, followed by the unit separated with a space (e.g.: san ten seven [37], penta ten ba [58]).
  • Hundreds are formed starting with the multiplier unit, followed by the word for hundred (sento), separated with a space, except for one hundred: sento [100], duo sento [200], san sento [300], fo sento [400], penta sento [500], sita sento [600], seven sento [700], ba sento [800], and nin sento [900].
  • Thousands are formed starting with the multiplier unit, followed by the word for thousand (kilo), separated with a space, except for one thousand: kilo [1,000], duo kilo [2,000], san kilo [3,000], fo kilo [4,000], penta kilo [5,000], sita kilo [6,000], seven kilo [7,000], ba kilo [8,000], and nin kilo [9,000].
  • The bigger scale numbers are: mega [million, 106], giga [billion, 109], and tera [trillion, 1012].

Write a number in full in Mini

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