anzart/kab-new-num-system

Proposition d'un système de numération amazigh pour le kabyle — convertisseur interactif # Kabyle Numeral System Proposal — ⵣ Anggay amaynut n umḍan **Live site: ** A complete proposal for an Amazigh (Berber) numeral system for the Kabyle language (Taqbaylit), presented as a single-page static website with an interactive **number → Kabyle** converter. ## Background In everyday Kabyle, only **1** (*yiwen / yiwet*) and **2** (*sin / snat*) are of Amazigh origin; all other numbers are borrowed from Arabic (3 *tlata*, 4 *ṛebɛa*, 5 *xemsa*…). This proposal revives pan-Berber roots and builds a complete, regular system from 0 up to the billions. ## Design principles - **P1** — Pan-Berber roots, no Arabic borrowings. - **P2** — Transparency: every number remains traceable to its root. - **P3** — Masculine/feminine invariability beyond 10. - **P4** — One number = one word whenever possible. ## What the page covers | Section | Content | |---|---| | 01 | Cardinals 0–10 (gendered) | | 02 | 11–19 as single words (`mr-` + unit root) | | 03 | Tens 20–90 (unit root + `-an`) | | 04 | Compounds 21–99 (ten + unit, no connector) | | 05 | Hundreds (*imdi/imda*), thousands (*agim/igiman*), millions, billions | | 06 | Worked examples (1950, 2842, 12 530…) | | 07–13 | Ordinals, multiplicatives, collectives, fractions, ages, numeral prefixes, computing bases | | Annexes | State of the art: pan-Berber comparison and current Arabic borrowings | ## Interactive converter The page header features a converter that turns any integer from 0 to 999 999 999 999 into its proposed Kabyle form, with masculine/feminine toggle and a magnitude-by-magnitude breakdown. Examples: | Number | Kabyle (proposed) | |---|---| | 68 | sḍisan tam | | 1950 | agim tẓa imda smusan | | 2842 | sin igiman tam imda kuẓan sin | | 12 530 | mrasin igiman semmus imda kṛaḍan | ## Tech A single self-contained `index.html` — no build step, no dependencies (vanilla JS, inline CSS). Deployed for free as a static site on GitHub Pages from the `main` branch. ## Running locally Just open `index.html` in a …