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| Numerals are essentially ordinary adjectives (below 100) or nouns (for 100 and higher units). Units larger than 100 turn their heads into the genitive case. | | Numerals are really verbs: there's no "one", "two", etc. as such, but verbs meaning "to be one", "to be two", etc. |
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| The collective and reciprocal is archaic for numerals above 3. Numerals exceeding ten only have periphrastic distributives, collectives and reciprocals (''ḥáchúbh fa-hálódh mbúrégh'' '11 at a time'; ''ˀaˁathómhath tzúbhál nḥachúbháˀ'' 'a group of 30'; ''hálódh méˀath'' '1/100').
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