Table 3 Process of Addition in Bàtɔ̀nū Money Counting System

Added value in Bàtɔ̀nū Added Figures The Sum Total
Mùrì tía kà nérà nᴐ̄ᴐ̄bù‘a twenty and five naira’ N20+N5 = N25‘twenty five naira’
Múrí ìru kà nérà nᴐ̄ᴐ̄bù‘two twenties and five naira’ N20+N20+N5i.e., N40+N5 = N45‘forty-five naira’
Múrí nne‘four tewnties’ N20+N20+N20+N20i.e., N80 = N80‘eighty naira’
Múri nᴐ̄ᴐ̄bù‘five twenties’ N20+N20+N20+N20+N20i.e., N100 = N100‘one hundred naira’
Múrí nᴐ̄ᴐ̄bù kà pán nᴐ̄ᴐ̄bùfive twenties and five pounds‘five twenties and ten naira’ N20+N20+N20+N20+N20+N10i.e., N100+N10 = N110‘one hundredand ten naira
b̀ↄru‘a bag/two hundred’ 200 = N200‘two hundred naira’
b̀ↄru kà b̀ↄnu‘two and a half bags of money’ 200+halfi.e., 200+100 = N300‘three hundred naira’
b̀ↄru kà b̀ↄnu kà pán yenda nᴐ̄ᴐ̄bù‘two and half bags and twenty-five pounds’ N200+N100+N50i.e., N300+N50 = N350‘three hundredand fifty naira’
b̀ↄru ìta kà b̀ↄnu‘three and a half bags of money’ (N200x3)+halfi.e., N600+N100 = N700‘seven hundred naira’