532 GRAMMAR OF THE KLAMATH LANGUAGE. 



tunepantok /i-e only; h'lpok, Ir'ipuk both has, in the objective case, lapuka- 

 yii'nasli ; lapii'yala, htpeaUx to hear twins, lapa'yalsh twins. 



When cases of tlie numeral inflection appear abbreviated, in the form 

 of the short -a m adverbial phrases, this n)ainly occurs when arithmetic 

 fractions have to be expressed, and a term indicating separation, division, 

 etc., is subjoined to the numeral, as follows : 



ndana shc'ktatxatko oiie-iJiird part. 

 vuiiipa shektat^atk one-fomth part. 

 la|)i tunipa shektat;{atko two-fifths. 

 ta-unepa shektatxatk one-tenth. 

 nads^eks ta-unepa shcktatxatk nine-tenths. 



]?ut tlun-e are also other ways to express fractions : 



na-igshtani ktushkuish one-half, lit "one-half slice." 



lapgni ta-unepanta ndan tala pe-ula pen ntlgshta twenty three dollars and 



a half. 

 vunipashat shaktpaktxatko cut in four quarters (as an apple). Mod. 



The fraction eleven-fourteenths was rendered in the southern dialect in 

 the following clumsy manner : vunip pe-ulatko nanuk nii shn(')katko, ndan 

 ka-i shnoka; lit. "having taken all fourteen, I do not take three." 



Cf. also viinip kikanyatpatko four-cornered, Mod. 



in. NUMERAL CLASSIFIERS. 



The custom of appending classifying terms of various descriptions to 

 simple and compound numerals is often met with in foreign languages. 

 The six classifiers of the Aztec language describe the exterior of the objects 

 mentioned or counted, as -tetl is appended to round, -pantli to lony articles, 

 etc. In other languages, as in the Penobscot of Maine, the various termina- 

 tions of the numeral adjective act as a sort of classifiers. Among the Maya 

 languages, the Kiche seems to be the most productive in attributes of this 

 kind, and they are not at all limited to numerals.* Other languages ex- 



• Geougr Gibbs, Instructions for re.se.ircli relative to the etlinolnpy and philolotry of Anieriea, 

 pages 40 sqq. (Sinitlisonian Miscell. Coll., vol. 7, lrtf)3). H. I'K Charkxcky, Des exploiives numerales 

 dans le's dialoctes do la faraillo Ma.va-Qiii(:lj(^, in " Revne de LinKiiisti(|ne," 1?80, jiages :!:?n-:i8r). The 

 SAME, Du systfcme de nuimSration chez les peuples de la famille MayaQuiehd, in Le Musdon, Louvain, 

 18B2, vol. 1, No. 2. 8°. 



