Ŋʒädär: Numbers

The Ŋʒädär numbers are as follows:

1 ȝere
2 möre
3 söčö
4 nuro
5 mɯgɤ
6 k'oro
7 na͜ɤgɤ
8 äembä
9 weʒerx

10 t'ostaŋ

11 ȝerelen
12 merelen
13 t'össöčö
14 t'osnuro
15 t'osmɯgɤ

18 t'ösämbä
19 t'esweʒerx

An exceptional set of numbers that appear are these:

16 möräm
17 mörȝere

24 söčäm
25 söčȝere

Bigger numbers are formed using -t[o|e|ö|ɤ]l after the number root: söčtöl, "thirty", k'ortol, "fifty". Hundred is tVtVl, where V follows the same harmony pattern as in -tVl. Thousand has a name of its own, k'[a|ä|e]mr[a|e]; ten thousand is formed by reduplication: k'V₁mkV₂mrV₂, where V₂ is [a|e], and V₁ is [a|ä|e]. The default harmony is ä-e-e.

Larger units of counting are generally not known by most speakers, although the adjective p'acro 'large' combined with kämre and kämkemre is used among philosophers and scribes to form 100,000 and a million.

Congruence

Inaninimate nouns do not take plural marking when quantified by a number - you would say 'seven house', not 'seven houses'. However, animate nouns do take plural marking. In the absolutive, there's further a congruence detail going on for animates: each number, even each part of a larger number, is marked for plural (with the nominative plural morphology), obtaining things like:

naɤgɤ rügvä
seven houses

naɤgɤ rügväŋä
seven house-loc
in seven house(s)

na͜ɤgar iqest'er
seven-plur man-plur

na͜ɤgɤ iqest'inye
seven man-plur.at
at seven men

In other cases, however, only the main noun takes any case marker. (As for congruence, only non-numeral determiners take case and number congruence.)