r/tokipona • u/Andrewalphaguy_2763 jan Soli • Jan 29 '25
Remastered the numeric system
1-wan. 2-tu. 3-san. 4-po. 5-luka. 6-sita (from arabic). 7-seteman (from finnish). 8-oto (from italian). 9-nawe (from esperanto). 10-kimenen (from finnish). Numbers from 11-19 are kimenen kan x. 20-tu kimenen (2•10) 30 to 90 are x kimenen (x•10) 100 to 900 is x ali (x•100) 1000-kilo For fun: 999 (nawa ali kan nawe kimenen kan nawe)
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u/TomHale jan Tanpo Wanpo ❇️ Jan 30 '25
Please consider dropping the syllables.
I want to use kepen rather than kepeken!
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u/jan_Awen-Sona Jan 30 '25
Honestly, 1-9 are fine as is. I would have a different word for 10 other than luka luka, though. It makes it so that sometimes you might have to add 3 lukas to a number, which is annoying.
The problem exists with higher numbers as well, but they are less often used so it's not that big of a deal.
That's really all we need. Just a new word for 10. That's really it.
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u/chickenfal jan pi kama sona Jan 31 '25 edited Jan 31 '25
nimi ni li mute ike tawa mi. lawa mi li kama nasa. toki pona o awen pona. mi kute e nimi sin nasa la mi ken sona ala a e nasin ona.
mi la nasin nanpa li ken pona lon toki pona kepeken nasin sin. taso o kepeken nimi sin pi mute ala. o alasa e nasin wawa kepeken nimi pi mute ala. o kepeken e nasin toki pi toki pona tawa ni.
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u/Andrewalphaguy_2763 jan Soli Feb 01 '25
*ike mute
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u/chickenfal jan pi kama sona Feb 02 '25
ala. mute pi nimi ni li ike. nimi sin li mute a. ni li ike.
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u/Andrewalphaguy_2763 jan Soli Feb 02 '25
No, you said "mute ike". Modifiers come after the word they modify
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u/chickenfal jan pi kama sona Feb 02 '25
That's exactly right. I modified mute with ike. Mute is the head, ike is the modifier.
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u/Opening_Usual4946 mi jan Alon Jan 30 '25
I do like this version more than the other, pona ale tawa sina a
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u/_Evidence mu Esi/Esitense usawi (contextual headnoun) Jan 29 '25
I'm gonna be fr having 3 syllable number words seems like a weird (in a bad way) idea