Counting in Tpaalha
Language overview
Tpaalha is the second constructed language designed by Jessie Sams (co-creator of Méníshè, for the Freeform series Motherland: Fort Salem) and David J. Peterson for their LangTime Studio adventure, a streaming series featuring live conlang creation launched in February 2020. Tpaalha is the language of the oppossums, designed in the second season of LangTime Studio starting in October 2020 (the first season conlang was Engála).
Due to lack of data, we can only count accurately up to 17 in Tpaalha. Please contact me if you can help me counting up from that limit.
Tpaalha numbers list
- 1 – u
- 2 – syi
- 3 – idi
- 4 – mu
- 5 – toulh
- 6 – khaap
- 7 – u khaap it
- 8 – syi khaap it
- 9 – idi khaap it
- 10 – mu khaap it
- 11 – toulh khaap it
- 12 – khabzyi
- 13 – u khabzyi’t
- 14 – syi khabzyi’t
- 15 – idi khabzyi’t
- 16 – mu khabzyi’t
- 17 – toulh khabzyi’t
- 36 – khabvaalh
Tpaalha numerals
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
36
Tpaalha 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).
- Tpaalha numbers have a senary, or base-6, internal structure.
- Digits from one to six are u [1], syi [2], idi [3], mu [4], toulh [5], and khaap [6].
- From seven to eleven, numbers are formed starting with the added unit to six, followed by the word for six (khaap), then the word it: u khaap it [7] (1 6 &), syi khaap it [8] (2 6 &), idi khaap it [9] (3 6 &), mu khaap it [10] (4 6 &), and toulh khaap it [11] (5 6 &).
- The word for twelve is khabzyi [12], litterally meaning six by two.
- Numbers from thirteen to seventeen are formed starting with the added unit to twelve, followed by the word for twelve (khabzyi), then the contraction ’t of the word it: u khabzyi’t [13] (1 6*2 &), syi khabzyi’t [14] (2 6*2 &), idi khabzyi’t [15] (3 6*2 &), mu khabzyi’t [16] (4 6*2 &), and toulh khabzyi’t [17] (5 6*2 &).
- The only other known number for the moment is khabvaalh [36] (6*6).
Write a number in full in Tpaalha
Let’s move now to the practice of the numbering rules in Tpaalha. 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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Jessie Sams biography Jessie Sams is known in the conlang community for her Invented Languages course she gives at the Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas, where students construct their own languages throughout the semester. She has also worked with David J. Peterson on the Méníshè (Motherland: Fort Salem), Engála and Tpaalha languages (Langtime Studio), while working on her owns. |
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David J. Peterson After his linguistics studies at University of California, David J. Peterson has been chosen by HBO to create the Dothraki language for its series Game of Thrones. He then invented many other languages for television, the movie industry, and literature. |
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