Numbers
The numbers of Lezgian are: уд ud - zero
сад sad - one
кьвед qʷ’ed - two
пуд pud - three
кьуд q’ud - four
вад vad - five
ругуд rugud - six
ирид irid - seven
муьжуьд myʒyd - eight
кIуьд k’yd - nine
цIуд ts’ud- ten
цIусад ts’usad - eleven
цIикьвед ts’iqʷ’ed - twelve
цIипуд ts’ipud - thirteen
цIикьуд ts’iq’ud - fourteen
цIувад ts’uvad - fifteen
цIуругуд ts’urugud - sixteen
цIерид ts’erid - seventeen
цIемуьжуьд ts’emyʒud - eighteen
цIекIуьд ts’ek’yd - nineteen
къад qad - twenty
qadtsud - thirty
яхцIур jaxts’ur - forty
jaxtsurtsud - fifty
пудкъад pudqad - sixty
pudqadtsud - seventy
кьудкъад q’udqal - eighty
qudqaltsud - ninety
виш viʃ - one hundred
агъзур aɣeur - one thousand
Nouns following a number are always in the singular. Numbers precede the noun. "сад" and "кьвед" loose their final "-д" before a noun.
Lezgian numerals work in a similar fashion to the French ones, and are based on the vigesimal system in which "20", not "10", is the base number. "Twenty" in Lezgian is "къад", and higher numbers are formed by adding the suffix -ни to the word (which becomes "къанни" - the same change occurs in пудкъад and кьудкъад) and putting the remaining number afterwards. This way 24 for instance is къанни кьуд "20 and 4" and 37 къанни цIерид "20 and 17". Numbers over 40 are formed similarly (яхцIур becomes яхцIурни). 60 and 80 are treated likewise. For numbers over 100 we just put a number of hundreds then (if need be) the word with a suffix, then the remaining number 659 is thus ругуд вишни яхцIурни цIекIуьд'. The same procedure follows for 1000, too... 1989 is агьзурни кIуьд вишни кьудкъанни кIуьд in Lezgi
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