Mark Rosenfelder of Zompist.com fame collects numbers from languages around the world (natural and constructed). Once when submitting numbers for Dunia, I asked him, "If you were going to derive ten forms for an IAL [international auxiliary language], using C(V)V(C)C, what would they be?" His reply:
Hmmm... for the same money I'll give you two variants. First, if I felt
the world needed one more Euroclone:
on du tri char pan sesh sat nau dest
This is based on a quick visual inspection of all the Indo-European
languages, so it ends up with more Indic influence than most Euroclones.
Though as I was doing this, I was tempted to just steal Tocharian A.
Without accents it's sas wu tre stwar pany sak spat okat nyu sak.
I think that's a very nice list!
For a more worldwide list:
nek [Algonquian]
du [IE and Austronesian]
kim [Quechua]
ne [Bantu and Algonquian]
lim [Austronesian]
truk [Sino-Tibetan]
sab [Semitic and IE]
wash [Maya and maybe Austronesian]
tis [Semitic]
dek [IE]
Best wishes,
--Mark
It took me about six months to realize he didn't answer the question. :-)
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