Læntixu morphology

Main article: Læntixu

This page gives an extensive description of Læntixu morphological features.

Numerals

The numeral system relies on a decimal base.

The first ten cardinal numbers are noun-like forms on their own:

digit	noun form
1:	šæf
2:	æx‘
3:	mixow
4:	gowbɛ
5:	pæžɛ
6:	uba
7:	haša
8:	ko
9:	coju
10:	few

Numerals from 11 to 19 are built with the construction NUM + fewna, with some irregularities:

digit	noun form
11:	šæfewna
12:	æxifewna
13:	mixowfewna
14:	gowbɛfewna
15:	pæžɛfewna
16:	ubafewna
17:	hašafewna
18:	kofewna
19:	cojufewna

The numerals for (one) hundred and (one) thousand are noun-like forms on their own:

digit	noun form
100:	ñæθu
1000:	vjæ

The numerals for the multiples of tens, hundreds and thousands are built with the construction NUM + rɛ + few / ñæθu / vjæ, with some irregularities:

	tens	hundreds	thousands
2x:	æxirɛfew	æxirɛñæθu	æxirɛvjæ
3x:	mixowrɛfew	mixowrɛñæθu	mixowrɛvjæ
4x:	gowbɛrɛfew	gowbɛrɛñæθu	gowbɛrɛvjæ
5x:	pæžɛrɛfew	pæžɛrɛñæθu	pæžɛrɛvjæ
6x:	ubarɛfew	ubarɛñæθu	ubarɛvjæ
7x:	hašarɛfew	hašarɛñæθu	hašarɛvjæ
8x:	korɛfew	korɛñæθu	korɛvjæ
9x:	cojurɛfew	cojurɛñæθu	cojurɛvjæ

Composite numbers are built by just putting them aside, without any conjunction, in descending order:

• 1985: vjæ cojureñæθu pæžɛñukorefew

Numerals from 21 to 99 are however built with the construction NUM + ñu + TEN. The -ñu- infix blends with the -æxi- numeral infix, resulting in -ñowxi-, blends with the -uba- numeral infix, resulting in -ñuba-:

digit	noun form
25:	pæžɛñowxirɛfew
33:	mixowñumixowrɛfew
67:	hašañubarɛfew

All cardinal numerals up to these forms are meant as invariable. They can however be used without an adjoining noun by putting the articles before them:

æn‘ vjæ 
the one thousand

Numerals for “million” and “billion” are loanwords from Iðâɣ language:

digit	noun form
1,000,000:	šurentu (from I. šúrěntu )
1,000,000,000:	mešurentu (from I mêšúrěntu )

These forms are treated as regularly declinable nouns:

digit	noun form
3,000,000:	mixow šurentunu
6,000,000,000:	uba mešurentunu

If these numerals are used as simple count forms, they are declined in the basic 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 jæl and are declined in the oblique case:

kowf æx‘ šurentunoha jæl fuxanoha
to two millions people

In the earlier modern period the idea of “zero” is introduced from Iðâɣ language. This numeral is however usually limited to mathematics:

digit	noun form
0:	xesu (from I. xesú)

Ordinal numerals are formed by adding the adjectival ending -xu to the cardinal numeral form, with some irregularities:

digit	adjective form
1st:	šæwxu
2nd:	æxixu
3rd:	mixowxu
4th:	gowbɛxu
5th:	pæžɛxu
6th:	ubaxu
7th:	hašaxu
8th:	koxu
9th:	cojuxu
10th:	fewxu

Ordinal numerals for “millionth” and “billionth” are regularly formed from their corresponding cardinal forms, while their multiples are formed by unifying the separated forms in an only adjectival word:

digit	adjective form
1,000,000th:	šurentuxu
1,000,000,000th:	mešurentuxu
3,000,000,000th:	mixowmešurentuxu

If the numeral form is composite, the ending is added only to the last numeral form:

• 125^th: ñæθu pæžɛñowxirefewxu