Title:        number
Version:      1
Submitted:    2 Sep 87 00:21:36 GMT
Author:       mcvax!imag!scott (Scott Deerwester)
Submittor:    mcvax!imag!scott (Scott Deerwester)
Description:  Arabic numerals to multi-lingual natural language

[  This is great!  The comment at the start of the source is almost as good.
   Beware of the "ln" calls this archive makes...  -r$  ]

This version of number was inspired from the standard
version in /usr/games, but with a big difference:  It
knows how to count in a *lot* of languages, and can
be taught almost anything that it doesn't already know.
The information on how to count in a given language
is given in a grammar, written in a meta-language described
a little later.  Grammars exist, as of this moment, for:

Cantonese              French          Japanese        Spanish
Chinese (Mandarin)     Gaellic (Irish) Malinke         Susu
English                        German          Pular           Vietnamese
Esperanto              Italian         Romanian

It takes about twenty minutes with a native speaker to
write a grammar, once you understand how to do so.  Instructions
on how to write a grammar are included at the end of this
file.  It is also highly recommended that you study some
of the existing grammars before attempting your own.