Friday, 9 October 2009

Uyghur grammar lessons- NUMBERS!!!

Finally we got down to this...

1   bir                                 20   yigirmə                          10,000   tümən
2   ikki                               30   ottuz                           1,000,000 milyon
3   üç                                  40   qirq
4   töt                                 50   əllik
5   bəş                                60   atmiş
6   altə                                70   yətmiş
7   yəttə                             80   səksən
8   səkkiz                           90   toqsan
9   toqquz                         100  yüz
10 on                               1000 miņ


Ordinal numbers in Uyghur are pretty jokes. You just attach -inçi to everything, all the way through. There isn't even vowel harmony to worry about!

3 comments:

  1. It's almost just like in "normal Turkish" xDDDD.

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  2. Hey, "Tümen" is Persian or Turkish? :O

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  3. Hence it's a kind of Türkçesi xD

    Persian! and Uyghur, of course!

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