The Numerals. 21 



For more, see below on the numeral 7, and in § 17. 



The Red Sea group agrees with the Oceanic, and differs 

 from the literary Shemitic in using this dual pronoun, and 

 with the article I, usually alone, but sometimes having the 

 article m added to it (" The Compound Article/' § 2), for the 

 numeral 2. From §§ 13, 17 we see, however, that probably 

 this was the original Shemitic numeral 2, and that the 

 literary shene and kelee are comparatively modern. 



§ 8. The Numeral 3. 



Oceanic (see § 4, 3). 





tola, tolw, telo 



tela, Mod. Syr. 



talw 



thali (third), Arabic 



othay, ti 



adda, Shiho 



esei-h, ti-ga 





titu 



tata'ah, Sokotra 



thol 



tholth, Syriac 



selu s-ales 



t, Ethiopic, shelosh, Heb. 



re-oe, k-uay 



mi-h, mi-hay, Bishari 



etirom 



taltam, Sabaean 



For more, see below on the numeral 8. 



§9. 



The Numeral 4. 



Oceanic (see § 4, 4). 





riha 



aru-t, Amharic 



enpa, ampah, appa 



arha, Heb. 



uppah, fa 



%ihah, Arkiko 



effat, apat 



erhahte, Tigre 



paat, bate 



arbat, Sabaean 



haan 



arhan „ 



fum 



arham 



veri,fir 



fere, Danakil 



tigai, tiak 



uddig, fadyg, Bishari 



For more, see below on the numeral 9. 



§10. 



The Numeral 5. 



Oceanic (see § 4, 5). 





ikma (for kima) 



khemah, Sokotra 





heimish, khumis „ 



im, in 



honoyou, kum, Danakil 





(in kum-tum, 50) 





kon, Shiho 





khansa, Assy. 



