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This public article was written by [Deactivated User], and last updated on 28 Jun 2017, 11:59.

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Menu 1. One to nine 2. Main numbers 3. Composition 4. And also... 5. Written out Mayessan numeric system uses letters as numbers. One important thing you must be aware of is that this is only transcription, and the numeric letters have no phonetic value. We'll talk about that later

[top]One to nine

Digits are vowels in the alphabetical order plus the k̨eiilo (vowel lengthening mark).

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
&‍‍‍i| &a| &e| &o| &u| &2| &0| &1| &j|

There has not been an equivalent to zero for a long time. The need of specifying it came with the 17th century and science. It is now written using the negation mark &é|.

[top]Main numbers

Mayessan uses nine "keys" (consonants) corresponding to a multiple of ten, from ten to one billion.

10 100 1000
&q| &m| &n|
10k 100k 1M
&f| &k| &t|
10M 100M 1B
&s| &l| &r|

[top]Composition

As for the rest, it rather works like latin numeric system, except that Mayessan doesn't remove anything, and digits basically go before the key (meaning that 12, 13 and 14 in the following examples are actually written 21, 31 and 41 - don't get confused !).

12 13 14
&‍‍‍iq| &aq| &eq|

Digits go after if it is to express a certain number of keys (so these examples are actually written 12, 13, 14).

20 30 40
&q‍‍‍i| &qa| &qe|

And so composing goes on.

21 22 23
&‍‍‍iq‍‍‍i| &aq‍‍‍i| &eq‍‍‍i|

2212
&qamaina|
(2000 = &qa| &|+ 200 = &ma| &|+ 1 = &‍‍‍i| &|+ 20 = &na|)

Though a key exists for ten million, you can't write 35 000 000 like you would 3,5 * 10 000 000. You have to write it using the one-million key : 35 * 1 000 000.

[top]And also...

Comma is the dot of of the regular punctuation system.

2,1
&a.‍‍‍i|

There can't be any zero after the delimiter. Instead, reproduce as much commas as there would be zeros (without forgetting the delimiter itself).

2,001
&a...‍‍‍i|

As part of a text, numbers are introduced by the character &| so you don't confuse them with the text itself.

saqhos̨a söshemas̨eon 3 - &öqho7a| &s1shema7eon| &| &e|

[top]Written out

Now we can talk about that.

Written out numbers work approximately like their numeric form. One important thing you must be aware of is that for complex compositions, you can separate some of the blocks using "u" (the "and" conjunction for lists).

v̨uuaressuuar u v̨uuarluuarüs - /fúˑwaɾɛs:u:al u fúˑwal:u:alys/ - 350 000, or litterally "1000-3-100 and 1000-50"

You can shorten it because there is no reason to say "1000" two times.

v̨uuaressuuar u luuarüs - /fúˑwaɾɛs:u:al u fúˑwal:u:alys/ - 350 000, or litterally "1000-3-100 and 50"

But be careful then to specify what the next block is made of (if any).

v̨uuaressuuar u luuarüs u ësluuaris - /fúˑwaɾɛs:u:al u ˈlu:aɾys u əsˈlu:ajs/ - 350 051, or litterally "1000-3-100 and 50 and 1-10-5"

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[link] [quote] 28-Jun-17 12:05 [Deactivated User]

@[Deactivated User]
plus = viz - &viz| /ˈʋiθ/
minus = lis - &lis| /ˈlis/
multiplied by = stae - &stae| /ˈstɛj/
divided by = enstae - &enstae| /ɛˈnstɛj/

I just added the two latter ones. Sorry for the slow answer. ^_^'

[link] [quote] [move] [edit] [del] 01-Jun-17 21:22 [Deactivated User]

Do you have any words to show -, +, /, or *?