Numbers in Yakan

Information about counting in Yakan, which belongs to the North Bornean branch of the Malayo-Polynesian language family and is spoken in Basilan Island in the Philippines by about 110,000 people.

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Numeral	Cardinal	Ordinal
1	dambuwaˈ, dembuwaˈ (in counting objects) issaˈ	kaˈissaˈ, dehellu
2	duwe	pasunuh
3	tellu	sika tellu
4	ampat
5	lime	sika lime
6	ennem
7	pituˈ, pituh	kapituˈ
8	waluˈ, waluh
9	siyam
10	sempūˈ, sampūˈ, sampuh
11	sampuk dambuwah
12	sampuk duwe
13	sampuk tellu
14	sampuk ampat
15	sampuk lime
16	sampuk ennem
17	sampuk pituh
18	sampuk walu
19	sampuk siyam
20	duwempūˈ, duwenpuh
21	duwempuk dambuwah
22	duwempuk duwe
23	duwempuk tellu
24	duwempuk ampat
25	duwempuk lime
26	duwempuk ennem
27	duwempuk pituh
28	duwempuk walu
29	duwempuk siyam
30	tellempuh
40	ampatpūˈ, ampat puh
50	limempūˈ, limem puh
60	ennempuh
70	pitumpūˈ, pitumpuh
80	walumpuh
90	siyampuh
100	dahatus	kadahatus
1,000	ibu
50,000	limempuh ngibu
1,000,000	million

Information compiled by Wolfgang Kuhl

Source: Yakan-English Dictionary, Linguistic Socliety of the Philippines. Manila, 2002.

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Links

Information Yakan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakan_language

Details of Yakan numbers
http://www.languagelinks.org/lessons/yakan/yak_les2.html

Numbers in Bornean languages

Kadazandusun, Penan, Yakan

Numbers in other languages

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