What is 100 in Igbo?

100 in Igbo

narị

Hear it in a sentence

Otu puku, narị isii na otu bụ ọnụọgụgụ.

A native speaker reading a whole sentence that contains this number word. The clip was matched to the word automatically.

Recording by a native speaker from NaijaVoices, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

How 100 is built in Igbo

Traditional base-20 form

ogu ise

The older base-20 system counts in ogu (20) and nnu (400).

ogu ise is 5 twenties: 20 × 5.

100 in the other Nigerian languages

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These forms are generated from the counting rules of each language and are still awaiting native-speaker review. Numeral words vary by region and by source.