Monday, May 19, 2008

Bonko has a forum and an article on Wikipedia! Also the Bonko-English dictionary in .pdf !

The Wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonko

The forum:

http://bonko.dailyforum.net/

Bonko is becoming universal as more and more resourced become translated into other languages

The Bonko-English dictionary download location:

http://www.mediafire.com/?o9mjywzzndx

http://download56.mediafire.com/wtekzxjptjmg/o9mjywzzndx/Bonko-English.pdf

Monday, May 12, 2008

Numbers and Math!

Math in Bonko can be "nanba sona" (lit. : number-ology) or "sona nanba" (lit. : number-science)

numbers are not expressed like English Mathematics. It's more like Chinese Mathematics.

124 - one hundred twenty four

would be expressed as:

uno veto te teka kato uno

1 [hundreds] 2 [tens] 4 [ones]

Do not get confused!

1010203

could be:

un nega un teka kilo tu veto 3 uno

1 [millions] 1 [ten][thousand] 2 [hundred] 3 [ones]

Numbers:


decimal point: ten

0: no

1: uno

2: tu

3: san

4: kato

5: bente

6: lu

7: sebo

8: ojo

9: nona

10: teka

10^2(hundred): veto

10^3 (thousand): kilo

10^6 (million): nega

10^9 (billion): kika

10^12 (trillion): tela

10^15 (quadrillion): beta

10^18 (quintillion): esa

10^21 (sextillion): seta

10^24 (septillion): ota

10^27: sonto

10^30: veka

10^33: vunta

10^36: uta

10^39: teta

10^42: sota

10^45: linta

10^48: kesa

10^51: beko

10^54: oja

10^57: nena

10^60: ninka

10^63: lunto

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Math Basic Functions:

+ (add) : kon

- (subtract): si

* (multiply): te

/ (divide): ta

~ (about/estimate): cin

= (equal): iko
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problems and answers:

san te san iko nona.

3 * 3 = 9


bente veto te tu iko kilo.

500*2 = 1000