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so I have no problem with saying nanpa Inli "sixty four" or writing nanpa "64 " just witghout "nanpa", because "nanpa" is ordinal But is "nanpa" only for ordinals? I don't think so. It's rather an "operator converting a word into a number or am...

Of course, Sonja. Glad I could help.

then positional system with arabic numerals is more complicated than roman numeral system. Yes, it is. The idea of positional system(s) is more complicated than for systems with addition only I II III IIII V VI VII VIII VIIII X XI XII It's pretty easy to understand. Additional symbols (V, X) are ju...

For me it's clear and various examples of community events make it easier to understand and acquire the new term.

All of this detail work ignores the fundamental point, that tp actively discourages enumerating multitudes, as a matter of peace of mind, if nothing else. And it does seem we don't really need them for much real stuff Indeed. Sonja needs to give us a way of reading numerals without any ordinal or c...

jan-ante wrote:it has a meaning "number", but when it stands before wan/tu it is an ordinal number

Could you please quote the excerpt? I can't see anything like this stated there. I believe "nanpa tu" can mean an ordinal or cardinal number, depending on a sentence.

http://en.tokipona.org/wiki/Africa "ma Lunpan Lebanon" -- should be in Asia (missed there) "ma Masu ma tomo Akajela Egypt Cairo" -- country and city joined in one line http://en.tokipona.org/wiki/Americas "ma Ilakija Iraq" -- should be in Asia (missed there) "ma I...

Could you please quote the excerpt? I can't see anything like this stated there. I believe "nanpa tu" can mean an ordinal or cardinal number, depending on a sentence. nanpa n number oth -th (ordinal numbers) that is, if nanpa stands in a position of noun (e.g. subject, object) it means nu...

soweli suli li lape mute. soweli suli li lape mute. mi pilin ike tan ni: ona li wawa li ike. tan ni la mi tawa kalama ala. ona li pini e lape la ona li moku e mi. ona li pini e lape la ona li moku e mi! tenpo mute pini la soweli li lape. tenpo mute pini la soweli li kalama lape. tenpo lili pini la…...

jan-ante wrote:i provided this link (i) to confirm that it can be a noun and (ii) because you regreted that wiki replaced the old texts from tokipona.org

I see. Sorry, jan-ante.