Counting in Neolatin

Language overview

Forty-two in Neolatin Neolatin (Romance Neolatino) is an international auxiliary language, or rather a zonal constructed language, with the objective of facilitating communication between speakers of Romance languages. It is the parallel project to Interslavic (for speakers of Slavic languages), except it is for Romance languages. It is a standard of Pan-Romance communication actively developed by the collective, international and interdisciplinary project Vía Neolatina. While there have been similar attempts at creating a Pan-Romance standard in the past, the founder and lead developer of the project, Jordi Cassany-Bates, has been working on this codification since 2006 with the help of other linguists and collaborators.

Neolatin numbers list

  • 1 – uno
  • 2 – doos
  • 3 – tres
  • 4 – quattro
  • 5 – cinque
  • 6 – sèx
  • 7 – sèpte
  • 8 – òcto
  • 9 – nòve
  • 10 – dèce
  • 11 – óndece
  • 12 – dódece
  • 13 – trédece
  • 14 – quattórdece
  • 15 – quíndece
  • 16 – decesèx
  • 17 – decesèpte
  • 18 – deceòcto
  • 19 – decenòve
  • 20 – viente
  • 30 – trenta
  • 40 – quaranta
  • 50 – cinquanta
  • 60 – sexanta
  • 70 – septanta
  • 80 – octanta
  • 90 – novanta
  • 100 – cènto
  • 1,000 – mille
  • one million – un milione
  • one billion – un miliardo
  • one trillion – un bilione

Neolatin 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 zèro [0], uno [1], doos / doas (m/f) [2], tres [3], quattro [4], cinque [5], sèx [6], sèpte [7], òcto [8], and nòve [9].
  • From eleven to fifteen, numbers are formed from the root of the digit followed by the word for ten (dece): óndece [11], dódece [12], trédece [13], quattórdece [14], and quíndece [15]. From sixteen to nineteen, the order is reversed, as the unit is put directly after the word for ten (dece): decesèx [16], decesèpte [17], deceòcto [18], and decenòve [19].
  • The tens have specific names based on their multiplier digit root except for ten and twenty: dèce [10], viente [20], trenta [30], quaranta [40], cinquanta [50], sexanta [60], septanta [70], octanta [80], and novanta [90].
  • Compound numbers are formed starting with the ten, followed by the coordinator et (and) linked with hyphens (e.g.: trenta-et-cinque [35], cinquanta-et-òcto [58]).
  • Hundreds are formed starting with the multiplier, followed by the word for hundred (cènto in singular; cèntos in plural), linked with a hyphen, except for one hundred: cènto [100], doos-cèntos [200], tres-cèntos [300], quattro-cèntos [400], cinque-cèntos [500], sèx-cèntos [600], sèpte-cèntos [700], òcto-cèntos [800], and nòve-cèntos [900].
  • Thousands are formed starting with the multiplier, followed by the word for thousand (mille), linked with a hyphen, except for one thousand: mille [1,000], doos-mille [2,000], tres-mille [3,000], quattro-mille [4,000], cinque-mille [5,000], sèx-mille [6,000], sèpte-mille [7,000], òcto-mille [8,000], and nòve-mille [9,000].
  • Big numbers in Neolatin follow the short scale naming convention, where every new word greater than a million is one thousand times bigger than the previous term. Thus we have un milione [1 million, 106], doos-miliones [2 million]… un miliardo [billion, 109], doos-miliardos [2 billion]… un bilione [1 trillion, 1012], doos-biliones [2 trillion]…

Write a number in full in Neolatin

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

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