Iltârer Numbers

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The Iltâr use a base-8 numbering system, perhaps derived from the practice of finger-counting with the thumbs reserved to indicate order of magnitude. The number-words are true adjectives, although in Northern Iltârer they are not declined. The plural -et ending was once common for all numbers other than one, but is now considered archaic. The referential ending -er is used to create ordinal numbers from the cardinal forms given here. Note that even when the plural forms are used for cardinal numbers, the ordinals end in -er, not -etel

ipe	1	one
paphe(t)	2	two
me(t)	3	three
cene(t)	4	four
aphe(t)	5	five
nene(t)	6	six
htehte(t)	7	seven
âme(t)	10	eight
nese(t)	11	nine
cêphe(t)	12	ten
âmeme(t)	13	eleven
âncene(t)	14	twelve
âmaphe(t)	15	thirteen
ânene(t)	16	fourteen
ânhtehte(t)	17	fifteen
paphâme(t)	20	sixteen
paphâme-ipe, paphâme-paphe(t), . . .	21 22	seventeen, eighteen, . . .
mâme(t)	30	twenty-four
cenâme(t)	40	thirty-two
aphâme(t)	50	forty
nenâme(t)	60	forty-eight
htethâme(t)	70	fifty-six
phîse(t)	100	sixty-four
paph-phîse-ipe	201	one hundred twenty-nine
paphâme-phîse-nene(t)	2006	one thousand thirty

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