Numbers and pronunciations

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Numbers and Pronunciation

Here you will be able to find the symbols that the Babylonian's used. I am sorry that I do not have all the symbols up to 100 but they have not been made available to me yet. When they are, I will put them up on this page until then here are the numbers up to 20, and the pronunciations of the numbers up to 10.

The number symbols:

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The pronunciations:

1 - as (meaning literally 'man')

2 - min (meaning literally 'woman')

3 - es (meaning literally 'many')

4 - limmu

5 - ia

6 - ias (from ia+as 5+1)

7 - imin (from ia+min 5+2)

8 - ussu

9 - ilimmu (from ia+limmu 5+4)

10 - u