30S 
[No. 3, 
It. B. Shaw —A Grammar of the Language 
NUMERALS. 
The Cardinal numbers are : 
bir = one. 
iJci = two. 
och = three. 
tort = four. 
besh — five. 
alti = six. 
yette = seven. 
sakiz— eight. 
toqoz— nine. 
ten = ten. 
yigarma = twenty. 
otoz — thirty. 
qirq = forty. 
Miff = fifty. 
altmish 
or atmish = sixty. 
yetmish = seventy. 
sakzan = eighty. 
toqzan — ninety. 
yuz — a hundred. 
ming = a thousand. 
tuman = ten thousand. 
The intermediate numbers are formed by simple apposition, the multi¬ 
ples of ten coming first, as : un-bir = “ eleven,” btbz-besh = “thirty-five” ; 
tort-yuz sakzan-dch — “ four hundred and eighty-three” ; bir ming iki yuz 
toqzan = “ one thousand two hundred and ninety.” It will be seen that 
to express multiples of a number the smaller factor comes first, as above : 
tort-yuz — “ four hundred”. 
There is a class of Substantives derived from the cardinal numbers, 
which had better be noticed in this place. 
bir-ao or bir-ailan =one by itself, “ a one.” 
ik'-ao or ik'-dilan— a two, a pair, both. 
&c., &c. 
[iV"". B .—It is probably by a contraction of the former that we get the 
Post-position bir-lan , birla or bilan — together with, “ in one.” See Ku- 
datku Bilik, Introd.— aning imsdli bir-ailin “ with their proverbs.”] 
Next we have the Numeral Adjectives or Ordinal Numbers. These 
are : 
bir-inchi 
= first. 
yigarma-'nchi 
— twentieth. 
iki-nchi 
= second. 
btoz-unchi 
= thirtieth. 
bch-onchi 
= third. 
qirq-inclii 
= fortieth. 
tbrt-bnchi 
= fourth. 
illiq-inclii 
= fiftieth. 
besh-inchi 
= fifth. 
atmish-inchi 
= sixtieth. 
alti-'nchi 
= sixth. 
yetmish-inchi 
= seventieth. 
yetti-nchi 
= seventh. 
sakzan-inchi 
= eightieth. 
sakiz-inchi 
= eighth. 
toqzan-inchi 
= ninetieth. 
toqoz-unchi 
= ninth. 
yuz-unclii 
= hundredth. 
un-unchi 
= tenth. 
ming-inchi 
= thousandth. 
