Romulan Number and Measurement System

Rihannsu Numbers

The Romulans use a number system similar, yet different from its human counterparts. The below list should help the reader piece together Romulan versions of human numbers with a minimum of fuss, listing some Romulan numbers and their human translations. These are common to both Rom'lesta and Rihannsu.

• zero (0) - vet
• one (1) - tie
• two (2) - til
• three (3) - sie
• four (4) - sev
• five (5) - ko
• six (6) - kil
• seven (7) - yo
• eight (8) - yil
• nine (9) - pie
• ten (10) - dev
• eleven (11) - dev'tie
• twelve (12) - dev'til
• thirteen (13) - dev'sie
• twenty (20) - til-hn
• twenty one (21) - til-hn'tie
• twenty two (22) - til-hn'til
• twenty three (23) - til-hn'sie
• thirty (30) - sie-hn
• forty (40) - sev-hn
• fifty (50) - ko-hn
• sixty (60) - kil-hn
• seventy (70) - yo-hn
• eighty (80) - yil-hn
• ninety (90) - pie-hn
• one hundred (100) - tie-ptil
• one hundred one (101) - tie-ptil'tie
• one hundred two (102) - tie-ptil'til
• one hundred three (103) - tie-ptil'sie
• one hundred ten (110) - tie-ptil'dev
• one hundred eleven (111) - tie-ptil'dev'tie
• one hundred twenty (120) - tie-ptil'til-hn
• one hundred twenty-one (121) - tie-ptil'til-hn'tie
• one thousand (1,000) - tie-psie (tie (one) with sie (three) zeros)
• ten thousand (10,000) - tie-psev
• one hundred thousand (100,000) - tie-pko
• one million (1,000,000) - tie-pkil
• ten million (10,000,000) - tie-pyo
• one hundred million (100,000,000) - tie-pyil
• one billion (1,000,000,000) - tie-ppie
• ten billion (10,000,000,000) - tie-pdev
• one hundred quadrillion (100,000,000,000,000) - tie-pdev'sev

The Rihannsu number system is based on the first ten numbers. Any number past ten is a combination of these numbers. Starting with the number twenty, the suffix "-hn" is added. For example, the number "til" (2) combined with the suffix "-hn" makes "til-hn", the Rihannsu number for twenty. The same process is used for hundreds, using the suffix "-ptil" (p concatenated with til, representing two zeros). Past the hundreds, the system is more complex. The apparent suffix this time represents the place value. Using this number system, there is a Rihannsu number for every standard English number.

Units of Measurement

• ewa
  "second" (4.2 Terran seconds)
• siuren
  "minute" (12 ewa/ 50.5 seconds)
• kevn
  "period" (12 surien/ 10.1 minutes)
• tarim
  "hour" (12 kevn/ 121.2 minutes)
• tel
  "day" (12 tarim/ 24.24 hours)