THOMAS] ZAPOTEC NUMERALS 887 
280 chiia-taa=200-++80. 
300 chinoua (probably 15> 20) 
400 tobi-ela, or chaga-el-la=1>< 400. 
500 tobi-ela-cayoa=400+-100. 
800 topael=2400, or catoela=idem. 
1,000 catoel-la chiia=2 400—-200. 
1,600  tapa-ela=4> 400. 
4,000 chii-ela=10> 400. 
8,000 chaga-coti, or tobi-goti=1 > 8000. 
Cordoya adds at this point: ** Hasta aqui es toda la quenta de los 
yndios, y de aqui arriba van contando do ocho en ocho mil arriba esta 
declarado.” 
Of the alternates above alluded to it is only necessary to mention the 
following: 
15 ce-caayo-quizaha-cal le=5 from 20. 
17 ce-chona-quizaha-cal le=3 from 20. 
18 ce-topa-cal le, or ce-topa-quizaha-cal le=2 from 20. 
19 ce-tobi-cal le, or ce-tobi-quizaha-cal le=1 from 20. 
The alternates for the numbers 35 to 39 follow the method of count- 
ing from 55 to 59,75 to 79, and 95 to 99 mentioned below, thus: 
35 cecaatoua, or cecaayotoua=) from 40. 
36 cecaayotoua-bitobi=5 from 41; or cetapa caca quizah chaatoua=4 
from 40. 
So to 39. 
A thorough knowledge of the language, enabling us to furnish a 
complete explanation of the terms and particles added and interjected 
in forming the intermediate numbers in the higher counts, would be 
more satisfactory. However, it is believed that the number equivalents 
given in the list will be found correct. 
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Tt is apparent from the list that the system is vigesimal and to some 
extent quinary-vigesimal (note the names for 15, 55, ete.) The most 
notable feature, however, is the intermediate position it seems to hold 
between the Aztec and the Maya systems. The tendency toward the 
quinary method and the use of a special term for 15 ally it on the one 
hand to the Aztec system, while, on the other hand, in the reference in 
counting to the next higher score, which will hereafter be shown as a 
feature of the Mayan systems, it resembles them. It is possible, how- 
ever, that a more thorough knowledge of the language and the system 
may show that the names for 15, 40, ete., which have been assumed to 
be simple, uncompounded terms, are in fact composite. While c/7n0 is 
the usual term for 15, the alternate is cecaayo-quizaha-calle, which is 
equivalent to 5 from 20, showing direct reference to 5. It is possible, 
therefore, that chino is composite. As tow, the name for 40, contains 
the first syllable of fopa—name for 2—it may also be, and probably is, 
composite; this supposition seems strengthened by the fact that cayona, 
the name for 60, appears to be based on cayo, 3; and faa, name for 80, 
