There is a competing base hundred system very similar to our Hunimal. It is Centimal, available at Centimal.org. It uses phonemes that most languages can access to do the same things Hunimal does, one syllable per number from 00-99. I consider it an appropriate things for people to learn if they don’t want to speak English. Hunimal is built on English words with English phonemes, like rs and xes. Centimal happened independently to Hunimal and boasts of a geo locating recitation that can specify your location on earth in some small number of syllables. It has a repetitive structure like Hunimal as well, so it can be recited in the same way, but Hunimal has some quirks that are inescapable. For instance 33 is Ke in Centimal. That aligns perfectly with their pattern. 33 in Hunimal is threet. It is threet because it is in the thirts so it must start with a thr and it is the third, so it should end in an ee, but we already have three, so the t is added to distinguish it from three. This is a bit clunky in comparison, Centimal’s structure follows fewer rules more consistently, but Hunimal grew naturally from English and English is a major language.

The truth is we mostly leave our mathematics to computers nowadays and there is little trans national counting and exploring of numbers that requires us to pick one system over another. I, personally have not spent much time with Centimal, but it is good that it exists. If we can build culture around one of these systems that would be a good thing.