Sunday, 25 September 2011

Counting in Kadazan Continued

Let us continue with the counting where I left off.

  1. twenty one - duvo ngoopod om iso
  2. twenty two - duvo ngoopod om duvo
  3. twenty three - duvo ngoopod om tohu
  4. twenty four - duvo ngoopod om apat
  5. twenty five - duvo ngoopod om himo
  6. twenty six - duvo ngoopod om onom
  7. twenty seven - duvo ngoopod om tuu
  8. twenty eight - duvo ngoopod om vahu
  9. twenty nine - duvo ngoopod om sizam
  10. thirty - tohu ngoopod
  11. forty - apat ngoopod
  12. fifty - himo ngoopod
  13. sixty - onom ngoopod
  14. seventy - tuu ngoopod
  15. eighty - vahu ngoopod
  16. ninety - sizam ngoopod
  17. ninety nine(99) - sizam ngoopod om sizam
  18. hundred - atus
  19. one hundred - atus
  20. hundred and one - atus om iso *toiko atus iso to simplify
  21. hundred and two - atus duvo (simplified version is   acceptable, minus the 'om' which means 'and' in English)
  22. two hundred - duvo ngaatus
  23. three hundred - tohu ngaatus
  24. nine hundred - sizam ngaatus
  25. nine hundred and nine(909) - sizam ngaatus sizam
  26. nine hundred ninety nine(999) - sizam ngaatus sizam ngoopod om sizam
  27. thousand - soibu/iso ngoibu
  28. thousand and one - soibu iso
  29. thousand and two - soibu duvo
  30. thousand nine hundred and ninety nine(1999) - soibu sizam ngaatus sizam ngoopod om sizam
  31. two thousand - duvo ngoibu
  32. ten thousand - opod ngoibu
  33. hundred thousand - atus ngoibu
  34. five hundred thousand/half a million - himo ngaatus ngoibu/*satanga lizong
  35. nine hundred ninety nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine(999,999) - sizam ngaatus sizam ngoopod om sizam ngoibu sizam ngaatus sizam ngoopod om sizam
  36. million - lizong
  37. one million - solizong/iso lizong
Notice the prefixes of 'ngo' and 'nga'in ngoopod(20's to 90's), ngaatus(two hundred's to nine hundred's) and ngoibu( for the thousand's ). 

**
toiko means 'or'
satanga means 'half'

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