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Numbers from 1 to ᘔ～10<sub>10</sub> are the same in both systems; higher numbers are built with native roots in the decimal system (e.g. 11<sub>10</sub> ''oranasa'', cf. Quald. ''urănțọr'', 13<sub>10</sub> ''oranatoary''), and with Chlouvānem roots for Ɛ and the dozens in the duodecimal one (Ɛ ''vedega'' < Chl. ''vælden''; 11<sub>12</sub> ''mamesa''). Unlike Qualdomelic, where the original 100<sub>10</sub> (from PSm *klābrod) does not have a numeral value anymore - meaning "a lot of" instead - in Brono-Fathanic that root now serves as the word for 100<sub>12</sub>, but compound dozenal hundreds use the Chlouvānem root ''-nihega''. | Numbers from 1 to ᘔ～10<sub>10</sub> are the same in both systems; higher numbers are built with native roots in the decimal system (e.g. 11<sub>10</sub> ''oranasa'', cf. Quald. ''urănțọr'', 13<sub>10</sub> ''oranatoary''), and with Chlouvānem roots for Ɛ and the dozens in the duodecimal one (Ɛ ''vedega'' < Chl. ''vælden''; 11<sub>12</sub> ''mamesa''). Unlike Qualdomelic, where the original 100<sub>10</sub> (from PSm *klābrod) does not have a numeral value anymore - meaning "a lot of" instead - in Brono-Fathanic that root now serves as the word for 100<sub>12</sub>, but compound dozenal hundreds use the Chlouvānem root ''-nihega''. | ||
As for types of numerals distinguished, Brono-Fathanic has cardinals, ordinals (all analytic except for 1<sup>st</sup> (and 2<sup>nd</sup> in Fathanic), with only ½ having a separate root), and distributives (all analytic, formed by reduplicating the numeral). The apparent irregularity in the Bronic distributive form for 2 is not, diachronically, an irregularity: the cardinal form was the original ordinal form (Proto-Samaidulic *nwejeno, cf. Quald. ''năjen''), which displaced the original cardinal (PSm *nadgo, cf. the distributive ''nago nago'' and Quald. ''nad'') in all but a few dialects; Fathanic still has the *nadgo reflex as the cardinal (''naŋ'', c.f. ordinal ''nŏń'', distr. ''naŋŋaŋ''), even if in colloquial speech the Bronic-influenced use of ''nŏń'' as cardinal | As for types of numerals distinguished, Brono-Fathanic has cardinals, ordinals (all analytic except for 1<sup>st</sup> (and 2<sup>nd</sup> in Fathanic), with only ½ having a separate root), and distributives (all analytic, formed by reduplicating the numeral). The apparent irregularity in the Bronic distributive form for 2 is not, diachronically, an irregularity: the cardinal form was the original ordinal form (Proto-Samaidulic *nwejeno, cf. Quald. ''năjen''), which displaced the original cardinal (PSm *nadgo, cf. the distributive ''nago nago'' and Quald. ''nad'') in all but a few dialects; Fathanic still has the *nadgo reflex as the cardinal (''naŋ'', c.f. ordinal ''nŏń'', distr. ''naŋŋaŋ''), even if in colloquial speech the Bronic-influenced use of ''nŏń'' as cardinal may be found. | ||
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