We now know how to read and write nOmi(numbers) from zero to ten. In this article we are going to look into numbers from eleven to infinity. You can visit the learn numbers page and listen, to learn the pronunciation of these numbers.
11 to 99
You can now learn how to say eleven to infinity in the next five minutes. Just remember one simple rule. All the above words for numbers end in the uppercase letter ‘O’. Only the number in the unit position can have an ‘O’ ending. We remove the ‘O’ in all other positions.
Note how eleven is written in words. un-tam denotes ‘one ten’ in the tens position and unO denotes the one in the unit position. There is a hyphen between each number. And also, there are no spaces between the words representing a single number.
‘un tam fibO’ is wrong because of the spaces in between. ‘un-tam-fibO’ is correct.
Twenty is dun-tamO. Note how the O in dunO is removed when it is attached to tamO.
In twenty seven, the O in tamO is also removed as venO is in the units position.
Same logic from eleven to ninety nine without any exceptions. Now we can move on to numbers above ninety nine.
100 and above
In Image 5 we have the words to represent hundred, thousand, ten thousand, lakh, million, crore and so on up until trillion. So two billion is dun-taabilO. Eight hundred billion is ren-taafilO.
‘nOmi’ is number in KiLiKi and ‘fin’ is the word that denotes end. ‘finOmi’ is the word for infinity. You can now say to your friends that you can count from zero to infinity in KiLiKi.
Let us now look at a few examples.
Our first KiLiKi programmer is working on a Number to Word convertor that can convert your digits to words in KiLiKi language.
Keep counting 🙂