Igala Numeral System: Proposal for Modifications
Posted by
Salem Ejeba at March 4th, 2013
Igala Numeral System: Proposal for Modifications
Salem Ochala Ejeba
Department of Linguistics and Communication Studies, University of Port Harcourt
E-mail: so_ejeba@yahoo.com Telephone: 07032031984
Abstract
The numeral system of Igala displays mathematical operations of addition, multiplication and subtraction in the realisation of especially non-basic numbers. It shall be shown that the language possesses in its structure certain characteristics which set it out as a quasi decimal system attested in its lower numerals and a majorly vigesimal system over all. This system would have been sufficiently functional at some point or the other in the historical metamorphosis of the language and its speakers, catering for basic counting needs. With the need to count enormously large figures in contemporary times however, the need for a guided modification of this primitive model presents itself each time. It would be the suggestion in this paper that a modification based on aspects of the lexical, morphological and syntactic system of the in situ counting mode would subsist, with only an essential modification to a proper decimal system and the semantic replacement of some categories of the present forms.
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