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Cardinals

Proposal 1

• 1-12

  • 1: ën
  • 2: two
  • 3: tri
  • 4: fier
  • 5: femf
  • 6: six
  • 7: seven
  • 8: acht
  • 9: nien
  • 10: tën
  • 11: elv
  • 12: tvielf
• 13-19

  • formed by adding the suffix -tëen to the numbers 3 to 9:
  • compare this to the english suffix //-teen//
• multiples of 10

  • formed by adding the suffix -tig to the name of the first digit
  • compare this to the english suffix //-ty//
• powers of 10

  • 100: hundred
  • 1000: tusend
• references: sch12

Proposal 2

• 0-10

  • 0: nul
  • 1: en
  • 2: tve
  • 3: tri
  • 4: fir
  • 5: fem
  • 6: seks
  • 7: siv
  • 8: akt
  • 9: nin
  • 10: ten
• powers of 10

  • 100: hundred
  • 1000: tusend
• all other numbers

  • formed by sticking the numbers together according to the decimal system with the numbers from 2 to 9 as factors
  • for example 8192: akttusend-(en)hundred-ninten-tve
• for the numbers 11-19 this system differs from most systems used in the Germanic languages, which makes it a little bit harder to comprehend for Germanic speakers without ever having seen it, but it also widens the distance between the names of the number-pairs "10+x/10·x" (13/30, 14/40, …), which is ofter quite small in the systems of the Germanic languages; e.g. the English words //fourteen// and //fourty// are quite susceptical to get confused
• references: fen13

Proposal 3

• 0-10

  • 0: nul
  • 1: en
  • 2: tvo
  • 3: tri
  • 4: fir
  • 5: fiv
  • 6: seks
  • 7: siven
  • 8: akt
  • 9: neen
  • 10: ten
• powers of 10

  • 100: hundred
  • 1000: tusen
  • 1000000: miljon
• references: cha07

Ordinals

The "backbone" of the ordinal suffix will be T and/or D, and the options are, in terms of T: -te (Danish, Dutch, German, Norwegian); -ta (Icelandic, Swedish); -t (English); and -ti (Icelandic). The other question is whether ordinal numbers will have the singular/plural distinction or be invariant (like genitives). Also, one can see that morphologically, there's a similarity between ordinals and preterites, but happily there is no danger of conflict because numbers don't act as verbs.