Numbers
Like English, Ka'ekala uses a base-10 numbering system that compounds words to indicate larger numbers. The numbers one through ten are:
- aim
- katam
- 'ekā
- wame'i
- nēlu'a
- rīse
- 'īke
- sungā
- ilang
- kā'a
For 11 through 19, the smaller number is simply added to the end of kā'a: 13 kā'a'ekā, 16 kā'arise. When kā'a is followed by aim, the two a's combine: kā'āim.
For the numbers 20, 30, 40, etc., the multiplier precedes kā'a: 40 wame'ikā'a, 70 'īkekā'a. As 2 katam and 9 ilang end in consonants, an a is inserted: katamakā'a, ilangakā'a. As with the teens, smaller numbers follow the kā'a: 24 katamakā'awame'i, 79 'īkekā'ailang.
100 is lamōke. Like kā'a, smaller numbers come after it to be added to it, and before it to multiply it: 145 lamōkewame'ikā'anēlu'a, 200 katamalamōke, 666 rīselamōkerīsekā'arīse.
Beyond this, however, the situation becomes less like English. There is not a separate word for 1,000; it is simply kā'alamōke "ten hundred". Larger thousands are compounded similarly: 2,836 katamakā'asungālamōke'ekākā'arīse, "twenty-eight hundred thirty-six".
However, for 10,000, lamōke is not combined with itself. Rather, a new word is introduced: le'īna "10,000". This displays the same combining characteristics: 20,000 katamale'īna; 400,000 wame'ikā'ale'īna; 364,517 'ekākā'arīsele'īnawame'ikā'anēlu'alamōkekā'a'īke, literally "thirty-six ten-thousand, forty-five hundred, seventeen".
The word for the next level up, 1,000,000, is kango'a; the following level, 100,000,000, is nepeng.
If followed by aim, le'īna and kango'a combine the same way that kā'a does: le'īnāim "10,001", kango'āim "1,000,001".
In number words of more than about three elements, the multipliers are usually said without stress (not even secondary stress), with emphasis going only on e.g. kā'a, lamōke.
- 100: lamōke
- 10,000: le'īna
- 1,000,000: kango'a
- 100,000,000 nepeng
The word for "zero" is siro, a borrowing from English.