sagla-taban

Afar

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Cardinal: sagla-tabán     Ordinal: sagla-tabanháytu

Etymology

Univerbation of saglá (“nine”) +‎ tabán (“ten”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saɡˌlataˈban/, [sʌɡˌlʌtʌˈbʌn]
• Hyphenation: sag‧la‧ta‧ban

Noun

sagla-tabán m 

1. ninety

Usage notes

• When used as a determiner, the genitive case is used:

  Sagla-tabaníh númu. ― Ninety people.

• When counting, the predicative case is used.

Declension

Declension of sagla-tabán
absolutive	sagla-tabán
predicative	sagla-tabaná
subjective	sagla-tabán
genitive	sagla-tabaníh
Postpositioned forms l-case sagla-tabanál k-case sagla-tabanák t-case sagla-tabanát h-case sagla-tabanáh

References

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN, page 232
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 197