Counting in Mwaneḷe

Language overview

Forty-two in Mwaneḷe Mwaneḷe is a conlang, a constructed language, designed by Miacomet a.k.a. u/roipoiboy on Reddit, from November 2018. It is a language with no adpositions and no case marking, a very verb-heavy language, with a couple clitics that link noun phrases together, and follows a Verb-Subject-Object order. Mwaneḷe, or Mwane, is written in Mwane script, and is spoken by the Mwane people. Articles on this language have been published in different editions of Segments, the r/conlangs magazine from Reddit.

Due to lack of data, we can only count accurately up to 9,999 in Mwaneḷe. Please contact me if you can help me counting up from that limit.

Mwaneḷe numbers list

  • 1 – ṣa
  • 2 – ṇi
  • 3 – sam
  • 4 – lon
  • 5 – ge
  • 6 – luk
  • 7 – xa
  • 8 – po
  • 9 – wam
  • 10 – ṣa tal
  • 11 – ṣa tal xo ṣa
  • 12 – ṣa tal xo ṇi
  • 13 – ṣa tal xo sam
  • 14 – ṣa tal xo lon
  • 15 – ṣa tal xo ge
  • 16 – ṣa tal xo luk
  • 17 – ṣa tal xo xa
  • 18 – ṣa tal xo po
  • 19 – ṣa tal xo wam
  • 20 – ṇi tal
  • 30 – sam tal
  • 40 – lon tal
  • 50 – ge tal
  • 60 – luk tal
  • 70 – xa tal
  • 80 – po tal
  • 90 – wam tal
  • 100 – ṣa lese
  • 1,000 – ṣa ṭine

Mwaneḷe 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 nine are rendered by specific words, namely ṣa [1], ṇi [2], sam [3], lon [4], ge [5], luk [6], xa [7], po [8], and wam [9].
  • Tens are formed starting with the multiplier digit, followed by the word for ten (tal), separated with a space: ṣa tal [10], ṇi tal [20], sam tal [30], lon tal [40], ge tal [50], luk tal [60], xa tal [70], po tal [80], and wam tal [90].
  • Compound numbers are formed by linking the ten and the unit with the conjunction xo, and (e.g.: ṣa tal xo ṇi [12], sam tal xo po [38]).
  • Hundreds are formed starting with the multiplier digit, followed by the word for hundred (lese), separated with a space: ṣa lese [100], ṇi lese [200], sam lese [300], lon lese [400], ge lese [500], luk lese [600], xa lese [700], po lese [800], and wam lese [900].
  • Thousands are formed starting with the multiplier digit, followed by the word for thousand (ṭine), separated with a space: ṣa ṭine [1,000], ṇi ṭine [2,000], sam ṭine [3,000], lon ṭine [4,000], ge ṭine [5,000], luk ṭine [6,000], xa ṭine [7,000], po ṭine [8,000], and wam ṭine [9,000].
  • Large compound numbers are formed by linking each group of digits (the ten and the unit, the hundred and the ten, the thousand and the hundred) with the conjunction xo, and (e.g.: wam ṭine xo wam lese xo wam tal xo wam [9,999]).

Write a number in full in Mwaneḷe

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