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LtJ wEtl-kai Aw'El mEl? 'Is your father dead ? ' Ilere the particle merely marks 

 the absence of the subject. '1-stlG kma k-a, ' I should like some water ' ; '1-stle krva 

 stEkc'yii, ' I should like a horse'; aua-a-stles kwa smi'yits? 'would you not like 

 some meat ? ' The function here resembles that of a partitive article. KElii't Icum 

 lEtsa, ' another ' ; rerhatim, ' VigaXn a one.' Ya'swa kiva liim tE e'lsa, ' perhaps I'll 

 go.' Here the uncertainty of the act is marked. Huta km' e^ liims, ' he said he was 

 going.' Here it is the absence of the person spoken of. Numerous other examples 

 will be found in the native text below. 



NUMERALS. 



Of these the simple hidependent forms are : — 



1. lE'tsa. 



2. isa'la. 



3. tleuq. 



4. HEHiitsEl. 



5. tl'k'hiisEl, s'k'atsis. 



6. t'qEm. 



7. tsauks. 



8. t'kii'tsa. 



9. tuq. 



10. a'pEl. 



11. a'pEl kEst (E) iB'tsa, 



12. „ „ Isa'la. 



The ' teens ' follow in like manner. 



20. ts'kwe, tsEkwp/q. 



21. ts'kwe kEst (E) lE'tsa. 



The other units follow regularly 

 in like manner. 

 30. c'lca. 

 40. HEtsElca. 

 50. tlEkslca. 

 60. t'qEmca. 

 70. tsuksElca, 

 80. t'k'sElca. 

 'JO. tuqElca. 

 100. lil'tsElwEts. 

 1000. a'pBl la'tsElwEts. 



PARTITIVE NUMERALS. 



half, s'uk ; quarter, stauk' 

 Class numerals abound in Tcil'Qc'uk. 



1 man la'lEtsa* 



2 men ya'isila. 

 8 „ tl'Qii'la. 



4 „ Hatsl'la. 



5 „ s'katsa'la or tl'katsa'la. 



; three-quarters, tleuq stauk'. 

 The following are examples : 



6 men t'qu'mela. 



7 ,, tsauksa'la. 



8 ,, t'ka'tsala. 



9 ,, tu'qEla. 

 10 „ S'pala. 



ORDINALS, 

 first, yuwe'l ; second, trde's (ad litt. 'next'). 



All the forms following are periphrastic, and grow more cumbersome as they pre 

 ceed. they ate formed on the pi-inCiple of the nursery rhyme, ' This is the house 

 that Jack built.' Thus the ' third ' is a phrase equivalent to ' next-to-the-next-to- 

 the'first.' The others follow in like manner till the last is reached, which is 



