Number Names

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In linguistics, number names (or numerals) are specific words in a natural language that represent numbers. In writing, numerals are symbols also representing numbers. In linguistics, the terms representing numbers can be classified according to their use: * Cardinal numerals: describe quantity - one, two, three, etc. * Ordinal numerals: describe position in a sequential order - first, second, third, etc.; the terms next and last may also be considered a kind of ordinals. * Partitive numerals: describe division into fractions - half, third, quarter, etc. * Multiplicative numerals: describe repetition - once, twice, thrice, etc.

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