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Counting words?
In Litish, the main counting system is a base-10 system, like the one you probably use (after 9, it begins reusing symbols!). Here are the numbers 0 to 10, many of which have French or English origin.
0 - nōgl
1 - unt (derivative of un/une, from French. Same as a (n.))
2 - dog
3 - trio
4 - cat
5 - quin
6 - sicx
7 - stevel
8 - hiton (Cl. Lit. huiton?)
9 - neauy (Cl. Lit. neufy?)
10 - tennon
Beyond this, some numbers may change slightly. 1 may sometimes be represented by the affix -uno-, while 8 and 9 may gain initial hyphens in suffix form.
11 - tennonuno
12 - tennondog (Cl. Lit., deouzen, French douze, English dozen)
13 - tennontrio
14 - tennoncat
15 - tennonquin
16 - tennonsicx
17 - tennonstevel
18 - tennon-hiton
19 - tennon-neauy
20 - dotennon
In front of consonants like b, g, d, p, k and t, the numbers may also change slightly- notice how the g in dog isn't present in dotennon. The changes generally might make many single-syllabled and vowel-final.
unt - uno
dog - do
trio - tri
cat - ca
quin - qui
sicx - si
stevel - ste
hiton - hui
neauy - neu
tennon - teno
You may see plurality when we have plurals instead of one plural.
You may've learnt numbers, and some words, but did'ya think just adding the numbers would be enough?
In Classical Litish, there may not have been strict laws for pluralisation. The plural forms from then may still be usable, but may be less regular than Standard Litish's plural forms.
The suffix that pluralises most nouns may be -e.
(Example: adam ('man') ---> adame ('men'))
However, if the word ends with an e, what do you do? No, don't add another e.
When e is the last letter of a word and has no other vowel in front of it, add nne.
(Example: eve ('woman') ---> evenne ('women'))
BUT: When e is the last letter of a word AND has another vowel before it, add ne.
(Example: skrÿnchie ('cookie'; Cl./Mid. Lit. scrunchie) ---> skrÿnchiene ('cookies'))
When the e has an accent aigu (´), change the é to ell. This is might be a newer addition to Litish and may not yet be widely observed.
(Examples: cojé ('continent') --> cojell ('continents'), lafté ('compo') ---> laftell ('compos'))
That's not all!
Behind o's and i's, instead of adding an e to get Englishy endings like in toe and tie, add lla!
(Example: läyllilillolo ('string instrument') ---> läyllilillololla ('string instruments'))
(Easier-to-pronounce example: öföfi ('plushie') ---> öföfilla ('plushies'))
Behind u's, nope, not lla- x! Sometimes u might get an e, though.
(Example: untou ('unicorn') ---> untoux ('unicorns'))
Some possibly less-observed examples may be once from things in Classical Litish. The u one might or might not be.
y may change to ettez, and in the word the closest i, if any, may become a u.
(Example: chirpy (Cl. Lit.; 'bird') ---> churpettez (Cl. Lit. 'birds'))
[NB: In Standard Litish, churpettez, churpetteze may now be accepted]
z may gain ens.
(Example: citoyz ('citizen') ---> citoyzens ('citizens'))
You may then ask, why isn't the plural of churpettez churpettezens? Well. Who knows, but *less-observed* examples, remember? I might want to get a new word for bird anyway. And cat (meowzlee). And dog (ruffles).
Practice some translation:
1. Two Ayla's (Ayla, if you recall, is the first letter of the Litish alphabet, and also the name of my officialish best mortal friend, who the letter was named after)
2. Six nines
3. Four boys
4. Nine houses (house is domilori- lori may be a common suffix for places)
5. Ten churches (church is Jesuslori. Jesus is still pronounced ≈zhay-zoo-zay)
Answers (highlight):
1. Dog Aylae
2. Sicx neauye/neau(y)ettez (NB: If you wish to use the second, maybe leave the y there so the sound doesn't have a drastic change. Here, neauy may be pronounced something like noy (like in annoy))
3. Cat adamamenne
4. Neauy domilorilla
5. Tennon Jesuslorilla
Well, good job!
Bovio!