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+=== Numbers ===
+The Nankôre number system is dozenal, i.e. base-12.  The numbers thirteen through twenty-three are modified compounds consisting of the unit numbers ''shori'' (1) through ''shiktash'' (11) compounded to ''shin'' (12).  The number twenty-four ''hanoshin'' can be analyzed as ''han-o-shin'', where the affix ''-o-'' signifies "multiplied by", so ''hanoshin'' literally means "two times twelve".  The multiplicative pattern continues until the number 144, which is called ''nakpa''.  The number 100 (''nenanoshin >> nena ān-o-shin'') is literally "four (and) eight times twelve".  The ordinals for the numbers 1-7 are the cardinal numbers suffixed by ''-ak'' or ''-ok''.  Numbers 8-11 are the cardinal numbers suffixed with the ending ''-u''.  The ordinal for the number 12 is again suffixed with ''-ok'', and the higher numbers with ''-nok''.  If the ''-nok'' affix is preceded by a consonant followed by ''-i-'', the ''-i-'' may be dropped, provided that this does not form the impermissible consonant cluster -CCC- sequence.
+{|  class="bluetable lightbluebg"
+|  Number
+|  Cardinal
+|  Ordinal
+|-
+|   one
+|  shôri
+|  shoriak
+|-
+|   two
+|  hani, ôhi
+|  hanyak
+|-
+|   three
+|  tushta, tak
+|  tushtak
+|-
+|   four
+|  nena, kayoka
+|  nenak
+|-
+|   five
+|  shishak
+|  chatak
+|-
+|   six
+|  shirisho
+|  shirshok
+|-
+|   seven
+|  kerisho
+|  kirshok
+|-
+|   eight
+|  ān
+|  anku
+|-
+|   nine
+|  karu
+|  karku
+|-
+|   ten
+|  kashe
+|  kashku
+|-
+|  eleven
+|  shiktash
+|  shishtu
+|-
+|  twelve
+|  shin
+|  shinok
+|-
+|  thirteen
+|  shorshin
+|  shorshinok
+|-
+|   fourteen
+|  hanshin
+|  hanshinok, hanshnok
+|-
+|   fifteen
+|  tushin
+|  tushinok, tushnok
+|-
+|   sixteen
+|  ninshin
+|  ninshinok, nishnok
+|-
+|   seventeen
+|  chashin
+|  chashinok,chashnok
+|-
+|   eighteen
+|  shirshin
+|  shirshinok, shirishnok
+|-
+|   nineteen
+|  kirshin
+|  kirshinok, kirishnok
+|-
+|   twenty
+|  anshin
+|  anshinok, ashnok
+|-
+|   twenty-one
+|  karushin
+|  karushinok, karushnok
+|-
+|   twenty-two
+|  kashmin
+|  kashminok
+|-
+|   twenty-three
+|  shikshin
+|  shikshinok
+|-
+|   twenty-four
+|  hanoshin
+|  hanoshinok,hanoshnok
+|-
+-
+|  thirty-six
+|  tushtoshin
+|  tushtoshinok,tushtoshinok
+|-
+|  one hundred
+|  nenanoshin
+|  nenanoshinok, nenanoshnok
+|-
+|   one hundred forty-four
+|  nakpa
+|  nakpanok
+|}
+<!--
+tak orâshim kot "3 Orashim trees" = 3 hundred.  An orashim tree is apporximately the length of 100 hand lengths (from heel of wrist to the tip of the longest, i.e. 3rd, finger).  An orashim is also 100.
+-->
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