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==== Numbers ==== | ==== 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''. | |||
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| Number | | Number | ||
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| fourteen | | fourteen | ||
| hanshin | | hanshin | ||
| hanshinok | | hanshinok, hanshnok | ||
|- | |- | ||
| fifteen | | fifteen | ||
| tushin | | tushin | ||
| tushinok | | tushinok, tushnok | ||
|- | |- | ||
| sixteen | | sixteen | ||
| ninshin | | ninshin | ||
| ninshinok | | ninshinok, nishnok | ||
|- | |- | ||
| seventeen | | seventeen | ||
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| eighteen | | eighteen | ||
| shirshin | | shirshin | ||
| shirshinok | | shirshinok, shirishnok | ||
|- | |- | ||
| nineteen | | nineteen | ||
| kirshin | | kirshin | ||
| kirshinok | | kirshinok, kirishnok | ||
|- | |- | ||
| twenty | | twenty | ||
| anshin | | anshin | ||
| anshinok | | anshinok, ashnok | ||
|- | |- | ||
| twenty-one | | twenty-one | ||
| karushin | | karushin | ||
| karushinok | | karushinok, karushnok | ||
|- | |- | ||
| twenty-two | | twenty-two | ||
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| hanoshin | | hanoshin | ||
| hanoshinok | | hanoshinok | ||
|- | |||
- | |||
| thirty-six | |||
| tushtoshin | |||
| tushtoshinok | |||
|- | |||
| one hundred forty-four | |||
| nakpa | |||
| nakpanok | |||
|} | |} | ||