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 ===Numerals (''dhujāvāmi'')===
-Dundulanyä has a duodecimal numeral system.
+Dundulanyä is one of the few human Eventoan languages - together with the other ancient languages grouped as East Mandabudi languages, a few other languages scattered in southern Lusaṃrīte, and a handful of others around the world, as well as those which have had considerable influence by Dundulanyä itself - with a pure duodecimal numeral system.
+Numbers (sg. ''dhujāvam'', pl. ''dhujāvāmi'') have six different forms: cardinal, ordinal, collective, distributive, adverbial/multiplicative, and fractionary. The numbers from 1 to 4 have separate adverbial multiplicative forms, while all other ones have an invariable form used both as adverbial and "adjectival" multiplicatives. Cardinals from 1 to Ɛ and their compounds decline for case (see below); collectives, multiplicatives, and fractionaries always decline, while ordinals are only declined if used as substantives, i.e. without an accompanying noun. Distributives do not decline.
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 | 24 || '''hälimūmai''' || hälimūmaisi || hälimūmetām || hälimūmekoma || hälimūmāyuśila || hälimūmaisyāṭ
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+As for the two forms for the numeral "one", ''emi'' is used in disjunctive counting (count-ins or countdowns), while ''emibe'' is used elsewhere. Compounds always have the full form, i.e. forms such as *hälimūmāyemi do not exist, only ''hälimūmāyemibe''. <!-- <br/>Some compound words, especially technical and scientific ones, use UNDEFINED-WEST-MANDABUDI-LANGUAGE morphemes for the quantities from 1 to ᘔ (though from 5 onwards they're rarer): ''mån-''&nbsp;1, ''yūn-''&nbsp;2, ''lyāš-''&nbsp;3, ''alan-''&nbsp;4, ''tamb-''&nbsp;5, ''jiruṇ-'' or ''ciruṇ-''&nbsp;6, ''tulyæn-''&nbsp;7, ''neim-''&nbsp;8, ''šid-''&nbsp;9, ''abar-''&nbsp;ᘔ. -->
+Numbers from 20<sub>12</sub> above are simply made by compounding teens and units with the appropriate saṃdhi changes, like 21<sub>12</sub> <small>(25<sub>10</sub>)</small> ''hälimūmāyemibe'', and then ''hälimūmairirä'', ''hälimūmaikiṅka'', and so on.<br/>
+The other dozens are:
+: '''30''' <small>(36<sub>10</sub>)</small> kiṅkamūmai
+: '''40''' <small>(48<sub>10</sub>)</small> nältamūmai
+: '''50''' <small>(60<sub>10</sub>)</small> śulkmūmai
+: '''60''' <small>(72<sub>10</sub>)</small> ūṃsamūmai
+: '''70''' <small>(84<sub>10</sub>)</small> chīcämūmai
+: '''80''' <small>(96<sub>10</sub>)</small> mbulmūmai
+: '''90''' <small>(108<sub>10</sub>)</small> ḍor̃mūmai
+: '''ᘔ0''' <small>(120<sub>10</sub>)</small> tāldamūmai
+: '''Ɛ0''' <small>(132<sub>10</sub>)</small> ṣūṇḍmūmai
+: and '''100''' <small>(144<sub>10</sub>)</small> trāṣoḍa.
+<sub>12</sub> originally meant "one finger/three in the second [dozen]", where the ''-hälī'' part is a worn form of ''hälinaike''.
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