Quantifiers

Quantifiers are determiners indicating quantity such as three, all and many.

Numerals
As in many languages, numerals are caught between classes. In their most common attributive form they resemble common adjectives and therefore follow the nouns they modify:

nia vai

car six

six cars

bukim yem

king three

three kings

Kah numerals were designed to be easily distinguishable from one another:

Tens
Tens are created by simply combining the words for a numeral with the word nini for "ten". When tens and basic numbers are combined, they are simply placed after one another: It is allowed to add the word ai "and" in between as well:

Hundred and up
The powers of ten up til one billion are listed below: Please note that this approach is different from the classic English decimal system, as it is dealing with powers of thousand instead!

Powers of ten are treated the same way as ten and form compounds with basic numerals. Compare: In a way, the division of powers of ten is a decimal system just like the basic numbers: These numbers combined look like the following:

Ordinal numbers
Ordinal numbers are expressed by adding the possessive marker na before the number in question:

nia na vai

car of six

the sixth car

bukim na yem

king na three

the third king

kwanya na teo

lesson of seven

the seventh lesson, lesson seven

Unbound forms
Numerals can be marked with the nominal prefixes u- and a- in order to derive unbound forms of numerals:

Decimal fractions
Decimal fractions are characterized by a bastan "comma" like in most non-anglophone languages:

0.25  -  0,25 (meng bastan sunini jom)

0.347  -  0,347 (meng bastan yemel panini teo)

3.14  -  3,14 (yem bastan nini pan)

When the numbers get to complicated, they can be simply put after one another as well in speech instead of breaking them down in hundreds, tenths and such:

3.14159 - yem bastan kwa pan kwa jom sasta

Vulgar fractions
Vulgar fractions are built by adding the root -mbe "part, share" to a numeral: These fractions can be modified by cardinal numerals in order to express more complicated quantities:

Quantifiers
Quantifiers in Kah behave like numerals in respect to their place in noun phrases:

uyu wi

Person much

many people

moso wi

milk much

much milk

wana yo

woman all

all women, every woman

wana sun yo

woman two all

both women

A list of common quantifiers in Kah is:

wi – much, many

wi tunti – more, more than

wi tio – most, most of all

vivi - too, too much

si – little, few

si tunti – less, less than

si tio – least, least of all

yo – all, every