NUM: numeral
Definition
A numeral is a word, functioning most typically as a determiner, adjective or pronoun, that expresses a number and a relation to the number, such as quantity, sequence, frequency or fraction.
Note that cardinal numerals are covered by NUM whether they are used as determiners or not (as in ǀgawi daob khoeseǀab “Highway Nineteen”) and whether they are expressed as words (haka), digits (4) or Roman numerals (IV). Other words functioning as determiners (including quantifiers such hoa “all”) are tagged DET.
There are words that may be called numerals in Khoekhoe, but which are not tagged NUM. Such non-cardinal numerals belong to other parts of speech in our universal tagging scheme, based mainly on syntactic criteria: ordinal numerals are adjectives (ǂguro “first”) or adverbs (ǂgūrose “at first”), multiplicative numerals are adverbs (ǀguitsē “once”) etc.
Word tokens consisting of digits and (optionally) punctuation characters are generally considered cardinal numbers and tagged as NUM. This includes numeric date/time formats (11:00) and phone numbers.
Examples
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0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 2014, 1000000, 3.14159265359
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11.11.1918, 11:00
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I, II, III, IV, V, MMXIV
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ǀgui “one”, ǀgam “two”, ǃnona “three”, ǀoadīsi “thousand”
NUM in other languages: [bej] [bg] [bm] [cs] [cy] [da] [el] [en] [es] [ess] [et] [fi] [fro] [fr] [ga] [grc] [hu] [hy] [it] [ja] [ka] [kk] [kpv] [ky] [myv] [no] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ru] [sl] [sv] [tr] [tt] [uk] [u] [urj] [xcl] [yue] [zh]