Counting in Sardinian

Language overview

Forty-two in Sardinian Sardinian (sardu) is an Indo-European language that belongs to the Southern Romance group. Spoken in Sardinia, Italy, where it it the official language, it counts about 1.2 million speakers.

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

Sardinian numbers list

  • 1 – unu
  • 2 – duos
  • 3 – tres
  • 4 – bàtoro
  • 5 – chimbe
  • 6 – ses
  • 7 – sete
  • 8 – oto
  • 9 – noe
  • 10 – deghe
  • 11 – undighi
  • 12 – doighi
  • 13 – treighi
  • 14 – batordighi
  • 15 – bindighi
  • 16 – seighi
  • 17 – deghesete
  • 18 – degheoto
  • 19 – deghenoe
  • 20 – binti
  • 30 – trinta
  • 40 – baranta
  • 50 – chinbanta
  • 60 – sessanta
  • 70 – setanta
  • 80 – otanta
  • 90 – nonanta
  • 100 – chentu
  • 1,000 – milli

Sardinian 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 and numbers up to ten are specific words, namely zeru [0], unu [1], duos/duas (feminine/masculine) [2], tres [3], bàtoro [4], chimbe [5], ses [6], sete [7], oto [8], noe [9], and deghe [10]. From eleven to sixteen, the number is formed from the root of the digit followed by the plural form of ten: undighi [11], doighi [12], treighi [13], batordighi [14], bindighi [15], and seighi [16]. From seventeen, the order is reversed, as the unit is directly put after the ten (eg. deghesete [17], bintitres [23], barantaduos [42]). An apocope is observed when the unit is one (eg. bintunu [21] and not bintiunu).
  • The tens have specific names based on the multiplier digit root, except for ten and twenty: deghe [10], binti [20], trinta [30], baranta [40], chinbanta [50], sessanta [60], setanta [70], otanta [80] and nonanta [90].
  • The same applies for the hundreds where one word is created by removing the space between the multiplier and the hundred word: chentu [100] (plural chentos), duchentos [200], trechentos [300], batorchentos [400], chinbichentos [500], seschentos [600], setechentos [700], otochentos [800], and nobichentos [900].
  • The word for thousand (milli, plural miza) being feminine, two agrees in gender with it: two thousand is duamiza.

Write a number in full in Sardinian

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