Cažorih morphology
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This page gives an extensive description of Cažorih morphological features.
Numerals
The numeral system relies on a decimal base.
The first ten cardinal numbers are forms on their own:
| šɛr | |
| mɔž | |
| bĩ | |
| čor | |
| ʔeβ | |
| kaɣ | |
| juʔ | |
| ty | |
| ped | |
| lõ |
Numerals from 11 to 19 are built with the construction NUM + ɛnɛ + lõ, with some irregularities:
| šɛrɛnɛlõ | |
| mɔžɛnɛlõ | |
| binɛnɛlõ | |
| čorɛnɛlõ | |
| ʔeβɛnɛlõ | |
| kaɣɛnɛlõ | |
| juʔɛnɛlõ | |
| tynɛlõ | |
| pedɛnɛlõ |
The numerals for (one) hundred and (one) thousand are forms on their own:
| ʔoh | |
| hoʔ |
The numerals for tens, hundreds and thousands are:
| lome | |
| ʔohe | |
| hoʔe |
The numerals for the multiples of tens, hundreds and thousands are built with the construction NUM + lome / ʔohe / hoʔe, with some irregularities:
| mɔšlome | mɔšʔohe | mɔšhoʔe | |
| bĩlome | bĩʔohe | bĩhoʔe | |
| čorlome | čorʔohe | čorhoʔe | |
| ʔeβlome | ʔeβʔohe | ʔeβhoʔe | |
| kaɣlome | kaʔohe | kahoʔe | |
| juʔlome | juʔohe | juhoʔe | |
| tylome | toʔohe | tohoʔe | |
| pedlome | peʔohe | pehoʔe |
All cardinal numerals up to these forms are meant as invariable.
Composite numbers are built by just putting them beside, without any conjunction, in descending order:
- 1985: hoʔ pehoʔe tylome ʔeβ
Numerals for “million” and “billion” are loanwords from modern Figo language:
| čãčãh (from m.F. čãčãr) | |
| mešurentuh (from m.F. mešurentur) |
These forms are treated as regularly declinable nouns:
| bĩ čãčẽ | |
| kaɣ mešurẽto |
If these numerals are used as simple count forms, they are declined in the accusative case. Inside of a structured sentence, they are declined according the case required by their syntactical role. Nouns adjoining such numerals are introduced by the preposition mɔ and are declined in the accusative case:
šɛr čãčãh mɔ fi one million people
mɔž mešurẽtož mɔ fi to two billions people
In the earlier modern period the idea of “zero” is introduced from modern Figo language. This numeral is however usually limited to mathematics:
| xesu (from m.F. xesu) |
Ordinal numerals are formed by adding the adjectival ending -irih (-ir) to the cardinal numeral form:
šɛr → šɛririh one → first
If the numeral form ends with a -e, this is replaced by the adjectival ending -irih (-ir):
tylome → tylomirih eighty → eightieth
If the numeral form ends in another vowel, the adjectival ending becomes -rih (-r):
čãčã → čãčãrih million → millionth
The first ten ordinal numerals, with some examples of additional numerals, are, with some irregularities:
| šɛririh (šɛrir) | |
| mɔžirih (mɔžir) | |
| binirih (binir) | |
| čoririh (čorir) | |
| ʔeβirih (ʔeβir) | |
| kaɣirih (kaɣir) | |
| juʔirih (juʔir) | |
| terih (ter) | |
| pedirih (pedir) | |
| lomirih (lomir) | |
| šɛrɛnɛlomirih (šɛrɛnɛlomir) | |
| mɔžɛnɛlomirih (mɔžɛnɛlomir) | |
| mɔšlomirih (mɔšlomir) | |
| bĩlomirih (bĩlomir) | |
| kaʔohirih (kaʔohir) | |
| pehoʔirih (pehoʔir) |
Ordinal numerals for “millionth” and “billionth” are quite regularly formed from their corresponding cardinal forms, while their multiples are formed by unifying the separated forms in an only adjectival word:
| čãčãrih (čãčãr) | |
| mešurẽturih (mešurẽtur) | |
| bĩmešurẽturih (bĩmešurẽtur) |
If the numeral form is composite, the comparative ending is added to every form, and they agree with their adjoining noun in case and number:
- 378th: bĩʔohirih juʔlomirih terih
