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Monday, February 8, 2010

Counting

Reisu uses a decimal, or base 10 system. The first 10 numbers are as follows.

1A6De
2Tu7Je
3Vi8Ji
4Sa9Nai
5To10Xo


Easy enough, and counting higher than 10 has a fairly regular pattern.
11Xoa21Tuxoa
12Xotu22Tuxotu
13Xovi50Toxo
20Tuxo99Naixonai


Xoa for eleven is simply ten plus one, and so on until you get to 19, Xonai. Once you get to the twenties you use a slightly different structure. Tuxoa for 21 is two times ten plus one. This continues until you get to ninety-nine, naixonai.

100 has it's own name, haku, but structure remains relatively the same.

101Hakua211Tuhakuxoa
102Hakutu232Tuhakuvixotu
103Hakuvi500Tohaku
200Tuhaku999Naihakunaixonai


Once you get to numbers this high sometimes hyphens make it easier to read. For example naihakunaixonai could be written as naihaku-naixonai. This is not required, it simply makes it quicker to read.

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