Mangareva numbers

How to count in Mangareva (Te Reo Magareva), a Polynesian language spoken in the islands of Gambier and Mangareva in French Polynesia.

There are two ways of counting in Mangareva: a binary system and a decimal system. The binary system gradually fell out of use due to influence from French missionaries from 1834.

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Numeral	Cardinal numbers
1	e tahi, ta’i
2	e rua, rua
3	e toru, toru
4	e ha, ’a
5	e rima, rima
6	e ono, ono
7	e hitu, ’itu
8	e varu, varu
9	e iva, iva
10	rogouru, takau
20	paua
40	tataua
80	varu
100	rau

Hear some Mangareva numbers:

Information about counting in Mangarevan
https://archive.org/details/essaidegrammair00janegoog/page/n25/mode/2up
https://www.pnas.org/content/111/4/1322

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