I'm working on its numeral system right now. I've got the following basic numbers (it's base 16, and I imagine four limbs with four fingers and toes on each). Unless otherwise marked, they're just basic roots as far as even I know right now, but I'm not so entrenched in the conlang design that I can't do back-derivations. For transparency of derivation, I describe what I call Old Ŧattuintčïkë in this thread, which I intend to use primarily for a conreligion for which it's the liturgical language. For the number system, it's not supposed to be that different from "classical" Ŧattuintčïkë (the language spoken in daily life in my conculture), which simplifies things a little pronunciation-wise, and none of the terms in the below list are spelled differently between the two.
- ŋrï /ŋrɨ/: one
- đas /ðas/: two
- voo /voː/: three
- šop /ʃop/: four
- tleu /tleu/: five
- zëï /zəɨ/: six
- buiri /ˈbwiɾi/: seven
- jaŋ /d͡ʒaŋ/: eight
- lot /lot/: nine
- sata /ˈsata/: ten
- iuu /juː/: eleven
- karaa /kaˈraː/: twelve
- kaze /ˈkaze/: thirteen
- gʼït /ɡʔɨt~ɠɨt/: fourteen
- floʼ /floʔ/: fifteen
- dladžei /dladˈʒei/: sixteen
- laumï /ˈlaumɨ/: 256 (and once meant "many"; that's now loomï /ˈloːmɨ/)
Here's where I get stuck: Did people before about ancient Roman times or so regularly need to go as high as 164 = 65,536? Is it plausible for my conculture to get by with just laumï laumïǥe if they need to handle the high tens of thousands and above until more advanced mathematics come along? I'm not familiar with the scale of numbers used in ancient times.