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SCHNEIDER. 





NUMERALS. 



ENGLISH. 



a, BULALAKAO. 



one 



usa" 



two 



dua 



three 



tulo 



four 



upat " 



five 



lima 



six 



unum ° 



seven 



pito 



eight 



walo 



nine 



siam 



ten 



sampolo 



eleven 



sampolo-ma-usa 



twelve 



sampolo-ma-dua 



twenty 



dua-polo 



twenty-one 



dua-polo-ma-usa 



thirty 







forty • 



upat-polo 



fifty 



liman-polo 



sixty 



unum-polo 



seventy 



pitung-polo 



eighty 



walung-polo 



ninety 



siam polo 



one hundred 



sampolo kasikapat 



b, ABRA DE ILOG. 



isa 



dalawa 



tatlo 



apat 



lima 



anim 



pito 



walo 



siam 



sampo 



labing-isa 



labing-dalawa 



dalawan-po 



dalawanpot-isa 



tatlong-po 



apat-na-po 



limam-po 



anim-na-po 



pitom-po 



walum-po 



siam-na-po 



isang-daan 



" Both the Samar-Leyte and the Cebu Bis. have usa. 



" Samar-Leyte oopat, Cebu upat. 



' Samar and Leyte oonum, Cebu unuin. 



■^ This form is incomprehensible to me except on the supposition that 

 Doctor Miller's informant was thinking, not in abstract numbers, but in 

 terms of money. Sikapat in Bis., Bkl., Tag., and many others is "the 

 fourth part (of the salapi or half peso)," i. e. Span, un real. There must 

 have been widely known in the Islands a unit of value called salapi (Skt. 

 rupya Eng. rupee; see Tavera, El Sanscrito en la Lengua Tagalog, Paris, 

 1887) which was approximately equal to a half peso at the time of the 

 Spanish conquest, for most of the native ways of counting money are based 

 on the half peso and the real. The Spanish-Philippine peso consisted of 

 eight reales, but the duro or peso fuerte of Spain was worth ten reales 

 and it does not seem improbable that this system might have been in use 

 locally at one time or another. Also Tavera, op. eit., gives: "isang salapi, 

 moneda de cuatro reales fuertes (diez reales de vellon) 6 sea medio duro". 

 Now the fact that the peso was divided into five pesetas or one hundred 

 centavos was already pretty well known during the Spanish regime, to say 

 nothing of the universal spread of the new coinage established under the 

 American government. Therefore, it seems not very improbable that the 

 Mangyan in question, thinking of "one hundred" had a vague mental notion 

 of that number of centavos and so said: "That's sampolo kasikapat" (ten 

 reales). 



