DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE BURA NUMERALS SYSTEM
DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE BURA NUMERALS SYSTEM

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses the numeral system in Bura Language (or system of numeration in Bura), an endangered language spoken in the southern part of the present-day Borno State, Nigeria. The language belongs to the Chadic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family, whose other members are Semitic, Egyptian, Cushitic, Omotic and Berber. The article dwells on the numeral system of the language, which simply refers to the writing system for expressing numerals, and a mathematical notation for representing numbers of a given set, using graphemes or symbols in a consistent manner. The paper examines Bura numerals classifying them into four different types namely: cardinals, ordinals, numeral adverbs and distributive numerals.

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