Editing Shilha language (section)

==== Tens, hundreds, thousands ====
There are three inherited nouns to denote "a tensome", "a hundred" and "a thousand". These now seem to be obsolete, but they are well attested in the premodern manuscripts.<ref>See van den Boogert (1997:286–7).</ref> Morphologically, they are ordinary inflected nouns.

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
!width="120"|
!width="240" colspan="2"| Singular
!width="240" colspan="2"| Plural
|-
! ||EL || EA ||EL ||EA
|-
| "a tensome"   || {{Lang|shi-latn|t-a-mraw-t}} || {{Lang|shi-latn|t-mraw-t}} || {{Lang|shi-latn|t-i-mraw-in}} || {{Lang|shi-latn|t-mraw-in}}
|-
| "a hundred"   || {{Lang|shi-latn|t-i-miḍi}} || {{Lang|shi-latn|t-miḍi}} || {{Lang|shi-latn|t-i-maḍ}}|| {{Lang|shi-latn|t-maḍ}}
|-
| "a thousand"  || {{Lang|shi-latn|ifḍ}} || {{Lang|shi-latn|y-ifḍ}} || {{Lang|shi-latn|afḍa-n}}|| {{Lang|shi-latn|w-afḍa-n}}
|}

The tens, hundreds and thousand were formed by combining the numerals 1 to 10 with the numeral nouns:

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{{interlinear|indent=2|lang=shi|snat tmrawin|two EA-tensomes|"twenty"}}
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{{interlinear|indent=2|lang=shi|snat tmaḍ|two EA-hundreds|"two hundred"}}
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{{interlinear|indent=2|lang=shi|sin wafḍan|two EA-thousands|"two thousand"}}
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The numeral nouns are connected with the preposition {{Lang|shi-latn|n}} "of" to a noun, which is most often in the singular:

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{{interlinear|indent=2|lang=shi|timiḍi n wag°mar|EL-hundred of EA-horse|"a hundred horses"}}
{{interlinear|indent=2|lang=shi|snat tmaḍ n wag°mar|two EA-hundreds of EA-horse|"two hundred horses"}}
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{{interlinear|indent=2|lang=shi|ifḍ n tfunast|EL-thousand of EA-cow|"a thousand cows"}}
{{interlinear|indent=2|lang=shi|sin wafḍan n tfunast|two EA-thousands of EA-cow|"two thousand cows"}}
{{Col-end}}

In the modern language the Arabic tens are used, which have developed a separate feminine form:

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{{interlinear|indent=2|lang=shi|ɛcrin n wag°mar|twenty of EA-horse|"twenty horses"}}
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{{interlinear|indent=2|lang=shi|ɛcrint n tfunast|twenty of EA-cow|"twenty cows"}}
{{Col-end}}
The numerals between the tens are most frequently made with the Arabic numerals 1 to 10:

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{{interlinear|indent=2|lang=shi|xmsa w ɛcrin n wag°mar|five and twenty of EA-horse|"twenty-five horses"}}
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{{interlinear|indent=2|lang=shi|xmsa w ɛcrint n tfunast|five and twenty of EA-cow|"twenty-five cows"}}
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The Arabic hundreds and thousands are used in the modern language, taking the places of the original numeral nouns while the original syntax is maintained:

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{{interlinear|indent=2|lang=shi|miya n wag°mar|hundred of EA-horse|"a hundred horses"}}
{{interlinear|indent=2|lang=shi|snat id miya n wag°mar|two PL hundred of EA-horse|"two hundred horses"}}
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{{interlinear|indent=2|lang=shi|alf n tfunast|thousand of EA-cow|"a thousand cows"}}
{{interlinear|indent=2|lang=shi|sin walfiwn n tfunast|two EA-thousands of EA-cow|"two thousand cows"}}
{{Col-end}}

There is also a vigesimal system built on the Arabic numeral {{Lang|shi-latn|ɛcrin}} "twenty, score",<ref>Aspinion (1953:254).</ref> for example:

{{interlinear|indent=2|lang=shi|sin id ɛcrint n tfunast|two PL score of EA-cow|"forty cows"}}