{"id":16,"date":"2016-05-05T19:56:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T19:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andre.mabande.se\/vai\/?p=16"},"modified":"2023-12-19T11:02:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T11:02:06","slug":"new-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andre.mabande.se\/vai\/new-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"New numerals?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When ꖝꔞꔒ<\/span> [sic?]<\/span> invented\/formalised the ꕙꔤ<\/span> script he and his assistants for some reason didn’t create numerals. Maybe they just didn’t think of it, as numbers could be represented in words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Almost a century later numerals were developed for 0-9, but never caught on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two reasons they didn’t get accepted I imagine is that the ꕙꔤ numerals (꘠꘍<\/span><\/span> ꘡꘍<\/span> ꘢꘍<\/span> ꘣꘍<\/span> ꘤꘍<\/span> ꘥꘍<\/span> ꘦꘍<\/span> ꘧꘍<\/span> ꘨꘍<\/span> ꘩) are just an elaborate mirroring of the arabic numerals, but don’t represent any of the actual ꕙꔤ words for the different numerals zero to ten (ꔌꘋ ꕴꕱ<\/span>꘍<\/span> ꗏꗒ<\/span>꘍<\/span> ꗱꕞ<\/span>꘍<\/span> ꕢꕔ<\/span>꘍<\/span> ꕯꕊꕇ<\/span>꘍<\/span> ꖇꕱꖨ<\/span>꘍<\/span> ꖇꘋꗏꗒ<\/span>꘍<\/span> ꖇꘋꗱꕞ<\/span>꘍<\/span> ꖇꘋꕢꕔ<\/span>꘍<\/span> ꖇꘋꕯꕊꕇ<\/span>꘍<\/span> ꕚꘋ<\/span> ).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So… one evening I sat down and had a go at it myself.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Row one: 1-5; row two: 6-10; row three: 11-15; row four: 16-20.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

After a few attempts (sometimes inventing glyphs that already existed) I settled for seven glyphs created by more or less combining the ones of the original words into one symbol, i.e. symbols for 1-5, 10 and 20 (as the ꕙꔤ  counting system is 5-, 10-, 20-based). To the right is the result and examples of how to use them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately this only solves counting up to ꗞ ꕒꘋꔕ ꕉ ꗛꖺ ꕚꘋ ꖇꘋꕯꕊꕇ<\/span> [sic?] as I didn’t consider numbers that were multiples of ꗞ ꕒꘋꔕ<\/span>. So, work continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For examples on how to count in vai Omniglot has a page<\/a> based on Koelle<\/span>’s Outlines<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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