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A few more prefixes for number components
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'''Numbers''' in Toaq have special behavior when chaining. For example, {{t|heı gue}} means “___ are twelve in number”, not “___ are ten in number and are two in number”.
'''Numbers''' in Toaq have special behavior when chaining. For example, {{t|heı gue}} means “▯ are twelve in number”, not “▯ are ten in number and are two in number”.


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== Number components ==
== Number components ==


Number components are a proposal that makes numbers their own part of speech, rather than predicates. Numbers are written as single words without spaces, like {{t|fueguheısaq}} rather than {{t|fue gu heı saq}}, so that they can be converted to predicates using prefixes.
'''Number components''' are a proposal that makes numbers their own part of speech, rather than predicates. Numbers are written as single words without spaces, like {{t|fueguheısaq}} rather than {{t|fue gu heı saq}}, so that they can be converted to predicates using prefixes.


These two prefixes are common ways to turn numbers into predicates:
The following prefixes can turn numbers into predicates.


<blockquote>{{t|ne-}}: turns a natural number N into the verb “___ are N in number”
* {{t|ne-}}: turns a natural number N into the verb “▯ are N in number”
<br>{{t|ko-}}: turns a natural number N into the verb “___ is Nth in sequence ___”</blockquote>
* {{t|ko-}}: turns a natural number N into the verb “▯ is Nth in sequence ▯”
* {{t|chaq-}}: turns YYYYcoMMcoDD format into “It is the day YYYY/MM/DD”
* {{t|jam-}}: turns HHcoMMcoSS format into “It is time HH:MM:SS”
 
There are also prefixes that can modify the numbers themselves.
 
* {{t|jem-}}: approximately N
* {{t|nho-}}: precisely N
* {{t|ze-}}: negative N


== See also ==
== See also ==


[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SKcQDRhTIaRXyPQO-5vt1TtmGyrleW3zAp8gebIs3vc/edit Document on Toaq number system proposals (outdated)]
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SKcQDRhTIaRXyPQO-5vt1TtmGyrleW3zAp8gebIs3vc/edit Document on Toaq number system proposals (outdated)]