The following comparative table of Serial numerals represents all
the accessible number-names in existing records of Serian linguistic
material. M Pinart records two lists of number-names from “one” to
“ten”, and says of the first list, “Quando se cuenta seguido”, _for
counting consecutively_.
It will be of interest to note the fact that the forms of the digit
“eight”, in the vocabularies of Professor McGee and Mr Bartlett, with
the latter’s “eighteen”, differ wholly from the elements representing
“eight” in their terms for “eighty”. The term employed by them is
recorded by M Pinart in his second list and also by Sr Pimentel.
Another peculiarity to be noted in the vocabulary of Mr Bartlett is
the fact that for the numbers “thirteen” and “eighteen” he writes the
same form. The latter is evidently miswritten, as the two are composed
of identical elements. The explanation of this seems to be that in the
former there is a subaudition of the element “ten”, and in the latter
of the element “fifteen”.
It is equally instructive to mark the fact that the terms denoting
“two, three, four, five” retain or preserve their fuller forms in their
multiples, as in “twenty, thirty, forty, and fifty”.
The lists follow:
_McGee_ _Pinart_ _Bartlett_ _Pimentel_ (_citing
Tenochio_)
1. tó‘χun tokχom tashsho tohom taso, tujon
2. ghá‘kom kaχ´kum kookχ´ kahom kokjl, kujom
3. pháum p’χ´ao kapχ´a phraom kupjtku
4. sâ´hkūm shoχ´kum kshuχ´kŭă scochhom {kosojkl
{kosojhl
5. kwáetūm kuaotom kooχtom huavat’hom kouton
6. náhpsūk napshoχ´ imapkasho napk’schoch snapkashroj
7. káhkwūū kaχkχue tomkaχkue kachqhue tomkujkcui
8. páhkwūū p’χakχue kshoχolka phraque osrojoskum
9. ksókhŭnt soχanthe ksovikanlχ´ sohántl ksobbejoaul
10. khóhnŭtˡ χonalχ´ kanlχ´ honachtl taul
11. tantasóque
12. tanchltoque
13. tanchtaphraqhue
14. [tanchltascochhom][333]
15. tanchlhuavat’hom
16. tanchlischnapk’schoch
17. tanchltumkachqhue
18. tanchlphraqhue
19. tanchlsóvihantlqhue
20. ŭntçkō´k kanlχ´kookχ´ eanslkoch taul jaukl
30. ŭntçkō´pka eans’lkapka
40. ŭntçksō´k eans’lscoch
50. ŭntçkóitum eanslkovat’hom
60. ŭntçěsnŭpkŭ´schōp eansly’schnapk’schoch
70. ŭntçtŭngŭ`kwŭ´k eansltumkachqhue
80. ŭ´ntçkuschohotkŭm eanslhschoholchkom
90. ŭntçksegŭnt eanslsovikakt’l
100. ŭntçgŭntˡ hiantlkantl taul taul
200. ŭnz-ŭ´ntç-kō´k
300. ŭnz-ŭntç-kŏ´pka
400. ŭnz-ŭntç-kŭkschō´k
500. ŭnz-ŭntç-kóitum
600. ŭnz-ŭntç-ŭsnŭpkŭ´schos
700. ŭnz-ŭntç-diŭnkwŭŭk
1000. ŭnz-untç kŭ´nz
[333] This form was not recorded by the collector, but has been formed
by analogy by the writer.