A grammar and dictionary of the Malay language : with a preliminary ...

DISSERTATION. Ivii
The ordinal numbers are formed in Malay by prefixing to
the cardinals the inseparable particle ka, and in Javanese by
the same particle, or by the particle peng, as katalu or pengtalu,
" third." Fractional numbers in Malay are formed by the
inseparable prefix par, which in Javanese is pra.
With the exception of the first five numerals and the
decimal, the numerals of the ceremonial dialect of the Javanese
are the same as those of the ordinary language. For one, the
ceremonial numeral is " satunggal ; " for two, " kalih ; '^ for
thi'ee, " tiga ;
" for four, " sakawan " ; for five, " gangsal ;
and for ten, " dasa."
The ]\Ialays, for numbers above a thousand, reckon by
Sanskrit numerals up to a million, and the Javanese as far
as tAvelve figures, or a billion. The latter only have the whole
series of Sanskrit, or at least of Hindu numerals, which they
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make as follow :—one, " eka ; " two, " dwa ; " three, " tri ;
four, " chator ; " five, " pancha ; " six, " sad ; " seven, " sapta ;
eight, " asta ; " nine, " nawa " ; ten, " dasa
" sata ; " a thousand, " sasra ;
" ten thousand, " laksa " a
hundred thousand,
; " kat"i " a million, " yuta " ; ten millions,
" windra " ; a hundred millions, " bara ; " ten thousand
millions, " kirna ; " a billion, " wurda."
With respect to the native numerals, it will be observed,
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" a hundred,
that those representing the numbers one, four, five, six, ten;
the adjunct expressing the numbers from eleven to nineteen
a hundred and a thousand, are essentially the same in the
two languages. The words for two, three, seven, eight, and
nine diff'er wholly in the two languages. In reckoning the
numbers between twenty and thirty, the Javanese has a
peculiar nomenclature in which it is followed by the Sunda,
the Madm-ese, the Bali, and occasionally by the Malay.
Instead of saying, for example, rongpuluh-siji, "twenty-
one," it has salikur, which may be rendered in English
" one-and-a-score." It thus reckons up to twenty-nine. For
twenty-four and twenty-five it frequently substitutes "salawe
pra," and " salawe." For thirty-five it has " kawan sasor ;
for forty-five, " sekat sasor ; " for fifty " sekat ; " for fifty-five,
" sawidak sasor ; " for sixty, " sawidak ; " for sixty-five.
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