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Cé Mhéad Duine? How Many People? – Na hUimhreacha Pearsanta i nGaeilge (Numbers for Counting People in Irish) Posted by róislín on Jul 16, 2009
(le Róislín) As I alluded to in the earlier post on “maoluimhreacha” (independent numbers), Irish has a separate system for counting people. These are used up to 10 and also for 12. Eleven is skipped over for these purposes. The phrase for counting 11 people uses the same number system as saying you have 11…