Tutelo numbers

How to count in Tutelo, a Siouan language that was spoken in Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina in the USA until the 1980s..

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Numeral	Cardinal	Ordinal
1	nǫ:sa:	etha:hni
2	nǫ:pa:	į-nǫ:pa:
3	lá:ni	į-lá:ni
4	tó:pa	į-tó:pa
5	kisą:ha	į-kisą:ha
6	aká:spe:, aka:spé	į-aká:spe:
7	sa:kó:mį	į-sa:kó:mį
8	palá:ni	į-palá:ni
9	ķasąhka	į-ķasąhka
10	pú:čka	į-pú:čka
11	aki-nǫ:sa:
12	aki-nǫ:pa:
13	aki-lá:ni
14	aki-tó:pa
15	aki-kisą:ha
16	aki-aká:spe:
17	aki-sa:kó:mį
18	aki-palá:ni
19	aki-ķasąhka
20	pú:čka nǫ:pa:
21	pú:čka nǫ:pa: aki- nǫ:sa:
22	pú:čka nǫ:pa: aki-nǫ:pa:
23	pú:čka nǫ:pa: aki-lá:ni
24	pú:čka nǫ:pa: aki-tó:pa
25	pú:čka nǫ:pa: aki-kisą:ha
26	pú:čka nǫ:pa: aki-aká:spe:
27	pú:čka nǫ:pa: aki-sa:kó:mį
28	pú:čka nǫ:pa: aki-palá:ni
29	pú:čka nǫ:pa: aki-ķasąhka
30	pú:čka lá:ni
40	pú:čka tó:pa
50	pú:čka kisą:ha
60	pú:čka aká:spe:
70	pú:čka sa:kó:mį
80	pú:čka palá:ni
90	pú:čka ķasąhka
100	ukhini: nǫ:sa:
200	ukhini: nǫ:pa:
300	ukhini: lá:ni
400	ukhini: tó:pa
500	ukhini: kisą:ha
600	ukhini: aká:spe:
700	ukhini: sa:kó:mį
800	ukhini: palá:ni
900	ukhini: ķasąhka
1,000	ukhini: pú:čka
1/2	aki-keneska
once	enǫx

Notes

Numerals in the teens are formed by prefixing aki- to the appropriate numeral from ‘one’ through ‘nine’. The word for ‘ten’ is always omitted. The prefix aki- means ‘being on’ from the locative á- ‘on’ as in the verb akine:se ‘to be on’. ‘Eleven’ then is ‘one being on ten’ where the word for ‘ten’ is omitted.
The prefix aki- ‘being on’ is also used to form numbers within decades. Thus, pú:čka nǫ:pa: aki- nǫ:sa: is ‘one being on twenty’.
Ordinal numerals (except for ‘first’) are formed with the prefix į- and the appropriate numeral.

Sources

Giulia R. M. Oliverio: A Grammar and Dictionary of Tutelo. Department of Liguistics, University of Kansas – 1996.
Horatio Hale: The Tutelo Tribe and Language. Read before the American Philosophical Society, March 2, 1883.

Information provided by Wolfgang Kuhl

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