Sarcee numbers

How to count in Tsuut'ina (Tsúùt’ínà), a Northern Athabaskan language spoken near Calgary in Canada. It was formerly known as Sarcee or Sarsi.

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Numeral	Cardinal
1	tłìk’āzá, Ɂatłik’aa
2	èkíyē, ákíyí, íkíyī, Ɂakiyi
3	tá.k’ē, tóók’ī, táyk’í, taak’i
4	díítš’ē, dīītc’íí, diich’i
5	gúùt’áá, guut’a
6	gùstánē, gùstóní, gustoni
7	tšìštš’ídē, tcìctc’ídí, chishch’idi
8	tłàšdíítš’ē, tłàcdīītc’í, tłaasdiich’i
9	tłìk’úyāwá, tłìk’ūyāyáá, tłik’uya
10	gūnèsnánē, gūnìsnání, gunisnani
11	tłìk’ é mītāā, tłìk’á mītōō, tłik’aa mit’oo
12	èká. mītāā, ìkáá mītōō, Ɂakaa mit’oo
13	tá.k’ ē mītāā, tóók’ī mītōō , taak’i mit’oo
14	diich’i mit’oo, díítš’ ē mītāā
15	gúùt’áá mītāā, guut’a mit’oo
16	gùstá mītāā
17	tšìštš’ídē mītāā
18	tłàšdíítš’ē mītāā
19	tłìk’úyāwá mītāā
20	èkédēē, àkáá-dīī
30	tá.dēē, tóó-dīī
40	dííšdēē, díīc-dīī
50	gúùstádēē, gúùt’áá-dīī
60	gùstádēē, gùstánē-dīī
70	tšìštš’ídēnē, tšìštš’ídē-dīī
80	tłàšdíítšdēē, tłàšdíítš’ē-dīī
90	tłìk’úyāwádēnē, tłìk’úyāwá-dīī
100	gūnèsnádēē, gūnìsnánī-dīī
200	èkádē gūnèsnádēē
300	tá.dē gūnèsnádēē
1,000	tłádé gūnèsnádā
100,000	tłádéé tłádé gūnèsnádā
once	tłìk’āzá-gù
twice	àkáá-gù, àkíyí-gù
three times	tóó-gù

Sources: Eung-Do Cook. A Sarcee Grammar. The University of Colombia Press, Vancouver, 1984. Nanagusja. A Tsuut’ina (Sarcee) Language Development Program, 1969.
Eung-Do Cook. Sarcee Numerals. Anthropological Linguistics. Vol. 13, No. 9 (Dec., 1971), pp. 435-441

Information compiled by Wolfgang Kuhl

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