Hausa

the Hausa words for numbers up to six can be preserved.

  • 0: sifili

  • 1: daya

  • 2: biyu

  • 3: uku

  • 4: hudu

  • 5: biyar

  • 10: shida

numbers after six can be formed the same as numbers after eleven, using the word "sha", which means "and".

  • 11: shida sha

  • 12: shida sha biyu

  • 13: shida sha uku

  • 14: shida sha huɗu

  • 15: shida sha biyar

multiples of ten in Hausa are loanwords from Arabic. to make multiples of six, we can alter these words to all end with -shida, the Hausa word for six.

  • 20: ashida

  • 21: ashida da daya

  • 22: ashida da biyu

  • 23: ashida da uku

  • 24: ashida da hudu

  • 25: ashida da biyar

  • 30: talashida (this apparently means cheek, so it might not work)

  • 31: talashida daya

  • 32: talashida da biyu

  • 33: talashida uku

  • 34: talashida da hudu

  • 35: talashida da biyar

  • 40: arbashida

  • 41: arbashida daya

  • 42: arbashida da biyu

  • 43: arbashida uku

  • 44: arbashida da hudu

  • 45: arbashida da biyar

  • 50: hamshida

  • 51: hamshida daya

  • 52: hamshida da biyu

  • 53: hamshida uku

  • 54: hamshida da huhu

  • 55: hamshida da biyar

for large powers of ten, Hausa puts the word for the power before the word for the digit, so this is also how Hausa uses nif and the -exian series. Hausa phonology doesn't allow the sequence /ks/, so -exian becomes -eciyan.

  • 100: nif

  • 101: nif da daya

  • 102: nif da biyu

  • 103: nif da uku

  • 110: nif da shida

  • 111: nif da shida sha

  • 200: nif biyu

  • 202: nif biyu da biyu

  • 220: nif biyu da ashida

  • 222: nif biyu da ashida da biyu

  • 1000: nif shida

  • 1 0000: uneciyan

  • 1 0000 0000: biyeciyan