Assiniboine numbers

How to count in Assiniboine (Nakoda), a Siouan language spoken in Southern Saskatchewan in Canada and Montana in the USA

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Notes

• The “teens” are formed by prefixing aké-, i.e. akéwąží ‘eleven’, akénųpa ‘twelve’ etc.
• The decades are formed by the word wikcémna ‘ten’ followed by the appropriate cardinal number, e.g. wikcémna nųpa ‘twenty’, wikcémna yámni ‘thirty’, etc.
• Numbers between decades are formed either by adding sąm ‘more, beyond’ to the decade term, followed by a cardinal number, e.g. wikcémna nųm sąm wąží ‘twenty-one’, or by adding aké to the decade term, followed by a cardinal number, e.g. wikcémna nųm aké wąží ‘twenty-one’. These two methods appear to be in free variation.
• The numbers ‘two’ and ‘four’ are shortened to nųm and tóm, respectively, when followed by another element in a numeric compound, and may sometimes be shortened when they occur phrase finally.
• Numbers beyond 100 are formed by the word opáwįğe followed by sąm and the unit or decade numbers.
• Other than the word for ‘first’, which has the unique lexical term thokáhe, the ordinal numbers are formed by adding a prefix į- to the cardinal numbers, e.g. įnųpa ‘second’.

Source: Linda A. Cumberland: A Grammar of Assiniboine: A Siouan Language of the Nothern Plains. Indiana University, 2005.

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