Makah numbers

How to count in Makah (qʷi·qʷi·diččaq), a southern Wakashan language that was spoken on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state in the USA and is being revived.

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Numeral Cardinal
1 c̉akwa·ʔak
2 ʔaƛ
3 wi·
4 bu·
5 šuč̉
6 č̉i·x̣ʷ
7 ʔəƛəbu
8 ʔaƛasub
9 c̉akwa·sub
10 ƛax̣ʷ
11 ƛax̣ʷ ʔiš c̉akwa·ʔak
12 ƛax̣ʷ ʔiš ʔaƛ
13 ƛax̣ʷ ʔiš wi·
14 ƛax̣ʷ ʔiš bu·
15 ƛax̣ʷ ʔiš šuč̉
16 ƛax̣ʷ ʔiš č̉i·x̣ʷ
17 ƛax̣ʷ ʔiš ʔəƛəbu
18 ƛax̣ʷ ʔiš ʔaƛasub
19 ƛax̣ʷ ʔiš c̉akwa·sub
20 caqi·c
21 caqi·c ʔiš c̉akwa·ʔak
22 caqi·c ʔiš ʔaƛ
23 caqi·c ʔiš wi·
24 caqi·c ʔiš bu·
25 caqi·c ʔiš šuč̉
26 caqi·c ʔiš č̉i·x̣ʷ
27 caqi·c ʔiš ʔəƛəbu
28 caqi·c ʔiš ʔaƛasub
29 caqi·c ʔiš c̉akwa·sub
30 qax̣u·k
40 ʔaƛi·q
50 ʔaƛi·q ʔiš ƛax̣
60 wi·yu·q
70 wi·yu·q ʔiš ƛax̣
80 bukyi·q
90 bukyi·q ʔiš ƛax̣
100 šuč̉i·q
1000 ƛax̣u·q

Sources:
http://www.native-languages.org/makah_words.htm
https://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/channumerals/Makah.htm
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Amerindian_basic_vocabulary

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Information about Makah | Numbers

Numbers in Wakashan languages

Ditidaht, Haisla, Heiltsuk, Kwak̓wala, Makah, Nuu-Chah-Nulth (Nootka)

Numbers in other languages

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