Talk:Nuer language
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I have moved the nice field work data below out of the article. — mark ✎ 16:54, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Numbers
(taken from an interview with my sister, with whom I'm working on mathematics with) (this is pretty raw, and is probably not accurate)
0 bang (nothing) 1 Kel 2 rraoe 3 diok 4 nuan 5 deh 6 bakel 7 baraw 8 baduk 9 bungwan 10 wal 11 walkel 12 13 waldiok what's 20? 20 genarrow 21 genarrow wu de kel 30 gendiok 40 gennuan 50 gendeh 100 walkel 200 kudarwo 300 kudiok 1000, kiskel 2000, kina (da?) raow 3000 10,000 kinu wall 20,000 kine te ge rao 30,000 kine diok 40,000 kine duan 100,000 kini te gen(da) rao ??? 200,000 pu da rao [kini te gen(a) rao ???] 300,000 pu diok (a million is a thousand thousand) 1,000,000 ?? how do I say multiply? tzan cable what does da mean? raoe times diok is bakel maken (times table) (fold clothes) how do i say add? moke (moke ) take away with a knife (how do you spell knife??) remember it starts with a silent k!
