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Table 4
How to say numbers in Gamkonora Language

1 Nai moi one
2 Nomodidi two
3 Lo ‘ange three
4 Nomotual four
5 Lalang five
6 Tumding six
7 Tumding seven
8 Tulangil eight
9 Siol nine
10 Nyagimoi ten
11 nyagi moi denga moi eleven
12 nyagi moi denga didi twelve
13 nyagi moi denga ange thirteen
14 nyagi moi denga lata fourteen
19 nyagi moi denga siol nineteen
20 nyagi momo didi twenty
30 nyagi momo ange thirty
40 nyagi momo lata forty
50 nyagi momo tual fifty
60 nyagi momo lalang sixty
70 nyagi momo tumding seventy
80 nyagi momo tu’angil eighty
90 nyagi momo siol ninety
100 latus le moi one hundred
21 nyagi nomo didi denga moi twenty one
31 nyagi loo ‘ange denga moi thirty one
101 latus le moi denga moi one hundred and one
200 latus le lomodidi two hundred
300 latus le lo’ange three hundred
546 latus le nomotual denga nyagi momo lata denga lalang five hundred and forty four
1000 calan le moi one thousand
2374 Calan le lomodidi denga lotus le lo’ange denga nyagi two thousand three hundred
nomo tunding denga lata and seventy four
Source: Bowden (2013: 88-89)

The figures in the table are used to calculate something and at the time of the study
by Bowden, the numbers were used to calculate coconut fruit that would be usd to make
copra. The figures above 10 are figures borrowed from the Austronesian group. For
example, number 100 in Gamkonora language is ‘lotus’ which in Malay is ‘ratus’. Similarly,

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