Talk:Nuer language

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I have moved the nice field work data below out of the article. &mdash; mark &#9998; 16:54, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Numbers
(taken from an interview with my sister, with whom I'm working on mathematics with) (this is pretty raw, and is probably not accurate)

0 bang (nothing) 1 KËl (one) 2 RËW (two) 3 DIÖk (three) 4 ĵUÄN (four) 5 DHËËHT(five) 6 BÄKËL (six) 7 BARÖW (seven) 8 BÄDÄK (eight) 9 BÄĵUAN (nine) 10 WÄL  (ten) 11 WÄLKËL(eleven) 12WÄLRËW 13 waldiok what's 20? 20 GËNRËËW 21 genarrow wu de kel

30 gendiok 40 gennuan 50 gendeh

100 KUÖR 200 kudarwo 300 kudiok

1000, KITHKËL 2000, kina (da?) raow 3000

10,000 kinu wall

20,000 kine te ge rao 30,000 kine diok 40,000 kine duan

100,000 kini te gen(da) rao ??? 200,000 pu da rao   [kini te gen(a) rao  ???] 300,000 pu diok

(a million is a thousand thousand) 1,000,000 ??

how do I say multiply? tzan cable

what does da mean?

raoe times diok is bakel

maken (times table) (fold clothes)

how do i say add? moke (moke ) take away with a knife

(how do you spell knife??) remember it starts with a silent k!

Nuer language template
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--Amazonien (talk) 02:40, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Male midit ke thuok Naath Turoah Marco Wuor Wal (talk) 15:04, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Is "h" a letter?
From what I've seen, "h" only exists as part of "dh", "nh", and "th". Should it be in the table as a "distinct letter"? Leviavery (talk) 23:21, 14 July 2020 (UTC)