NUMERAL SYSTEMS. ^1 



I have excerpted only the first ten numerals and the word for 

 twenty from Mr. Gallatin's Table A. He proceeds:— 



" The numerals as laid down in Table A. are used in counting 

 animated beings, mantas, mats, paper, tortillas, ropes, skms 

 canoes, cycles, knives, and candles; but in counting several of 

 these, the word pUU and sometimes quwiiUi, is substituted for 



poualli (20). • , 1 XI 1^..-. 



"The syllable tetl is added to the numerals, and these lose 

 their last syllable {matlactetl for maaacii, cem-poualtetl for cem- 

 poualli) when counting fowls, eggs, cocoa, jars, frijoles, Iruits, 

 roots, rolls, or round things. , . ,. 



-The word panUi is added to the numeral when speaking ot 

 ridges made by the plough, of walls, files of men, and of other 

 things arranged in length. _ 



" TlementU is added to the numeral when speaking of speeches, 

 dishes, bags, shields, or when a thing is doubled above another, 

 or when speaking of things differing one from the other. 



^o reference to such a system is to be found in the Grammati- 

 cal sketch of the Heve, translated by Mr. Buckingham Smith 

 (Xo. Ill of Shea's Linguistics); in the Nevome Grammar (ibid. 

 No Y), the mutsun of Father Arroyo (ib. No. IJ); o^/^^^^ 

 Sizars vocabulary of the San Antonio (ib. No. YII), the on y 

 extended works at present accessible on the languages o Sonora 

 and California, but it is very possible that it may exist there and 



have escaped notice. a ^ +-r. 



m Father Pandosy's Grammar of tbe Yakama, a Sabaptm 



language of Washington Territory (Shea's Linguistics, I-o. \ ). 



the numerals are not specially referred to ; but in the aecompany- 



Z dictionary metai is given for three, .relao ttoee persons ; 

 Jnepl for four, pinapo four persons; parat i,e, par-n.o fl e 

 persons, and otbel- numerals are given in duplicate or triplicate 



"'X: *:;:!"!, m his Grammar of the Selisb, or Flathead 

 of tb Roeky Mountains (Sbea, No. II.), says of the carctoal 

 numbei^-they are duplex, one set relating to things, the other 

 to persons, thus : — " 



