Wolof Numerals: Numerals-gctid76468

[Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé]

Numerals Cardinal numbers The Wolof numeral system is based on the numbers "5" and "10". It is extremely regular in formation, compaAmwle to Chinese. Example: benn "one", juróom "five", juróom-benn "six" (literally, "five-one"), fukk "ten", fukk ak juróom benn "sixteen" (literally, "ten and five one"), ñett-fukk "thirty" (literally, "three-ten"). Alternatively, "thirty" is fanweer, which is roughly the number of days in a lunar month (literally "fan" is day and "weer" is moon.)
 

0	tus / neen / zéro [French] / sero / dara [nothing]
1	benn
2	ñaar / yaar
3	ñett / ñatt / yett / yatt
4	ñeent / ñenent
5	juróom
6	juróom-benn
7	juróom-ñaar
8	juróom-ñett
9	juróom-ñeent
10	fukk
11	fukk ak benn
12	fukk ak ñaar
13	fukk ak ñett
14	fukk ak ñeent
15	fukk ak juróom
16	fukk ak juróom-benn
17	fukk ak juróom-ñaar
18	fukk ak juróom-ñett
19	fukk ak juróom-ñeent
20	ñaar-fukk
26	ñaar-fukk ak juróom-benn
30	ñett-fukk / fanweer
40	ñeent-fukk
50	juróom-fukk
60	juróom-benn-fukk
66	juróom-benn-fukk ak juróom-benn
70	juróom-ñaar-fukk
80	juróom-ñett-fukk
90	juróom-ñeent-fukk
100	téeméer
101	téeméer ak benn
106	téeméer ak juróom-benn
110	téeméer ak fukk
200	ñaari téeméer
300	ñetti téeméer
400	ñeenti téeméer
500	juróomi téeméer
600	juróom-benni téeméer
700	juróom-ñaari téeméer
800	juróom-ñetti téeméer
900	juróom-ñeenti téeméer
1000	junni / junne
1100	junni ak téeméer
1600	junni ak juróom-benni téeméer
1945	junni ak juróom-ñeenti téeméer ak ñeent-fukk ak juróom
1969	junni ak juróom-ñeenti téeméer ak juróom-benn-fukk ak juróom-ñeent
2000	ñaari junni
3000	ñetti junni
4000	ñeenti junni
5000	juróomi junni
6000	juróom-benni junni
7000	juróom-ñaari junni
8000	juróom-ñetti junni
9000	juróom-ñeenti junni
10000	fukki junni
100000	téeméeri junni
1000000	tamndareet / million

Ordinal numbers Ordinal numbers (first, second, third, etc.) are formed by adding the ending –éélu (pronounced ay-lu) to the cardinal number.
 For example two is ñaar and second is ñaaréélu
 The one exception to this system is "first", which is bu njëk (or the adapted French word premier: përëmye)
 

1st	bu njëk
2nd	ñaaréélu
3rd	ñettéélu
4th	ñeentéélu
5th	juróoméélu
6th	juróom-bennéélu
7th	juróom-ñaaréélu
8th	juróom-ñettéélu
9th	juróom-ñeentéélu
10th	fukkéélu

[Heru Djet]

Is Wolof considered a base five or base ten number system? It looks like a base five system given that it proceeds 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5+1, 5+2, and so on.

[Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé]

A combination of the two (base 5 and base 10) because 20, for example is two tens rather than four fives as would be expected in a strict base five system.