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łaá siri has a base-five number system, based off of five fingers on one hand. In fact, the root for “five” is the same as the root for “hand.” Similarly, the root for “zero” is also involved in many negation-like processes (adjective negation, deriving negative roots, etc).  Numerals are used mainly as adjectives.  0 - tłaa 1 - saya 2 - liyu 3 - latłá 4 - tłu  5 - lar Based off of these numbers, you can count to 25.  6 - lar saya’i (note: the enclitic -‘i is a relic of a postposition tła’i, which used to signify conjunction. Now the postposition is used as an existential and the enclitic is a conjunction, “and.” -‘i is NOT used with compounds like liyu lar (10), tłu lar (20), unless the compound is added to a larger number [see 60 below].) 7 - lar liyu’i  Then when you get to 25, you have:  25 - łatłaalar (literally, “big five”) 30 - łatłaalar lar’i (25 and 5) 50 - liyu łatłaalar (2 x 25)  60 - liyu łatłaalar liyu lar’i (2 x 25 and 2 x 5)  100 - tłu łatłaalar (4 x 25)  And things are all fine and dandy, but there are also the following “unique” numbers, which are all base-5.  125 - łilar (probably had a meaning when I made it, but now I forget OTL)  625 - si’ilar (same as above)  I haven’t made the numbers above this, but the next few that would need special names are 3125, 15625, and 78125…but when do you really need those?  LOS EXEMPLOS    - 465 - latłá łilar latłá łatłaalar latłá lar’i [3 x 125] + [3 x 25] + [3 x 5] = 465     - 1,234 - si’ilar tłu łilar tłu łatłaalar lar tłu’i 625 + [4 x 125] + [4 x 25] + 9 = 1,234 To be honest, I think the system is probably the way it’s supposed to be, but I don’t even understand how people can think in terms of a quinary system instead of a decimal system!