_Kiliwee_ (23) _Cochimi_ (I) _Cochimi_ (III) _Cochimi_ (IVa) _Laymon_ (IVb)
1. mesig 1. chaqui 1. tepeeg 1. tejueg 1. tejoe
(in 5
tejuep)
dujvenidi,
dujuenidi
2. ẖooak 2. kooak 2. goguó 2. goguò 2. gowac, kawam,
kamoe=”the
other”
3. ẖamiak 3. kabiak 3. combió 3. kombio, 3. kamioec
kambiec,
combiec,
cambiec
4. mnok= 4. ic̲h̲kyum- 4. magacubuguá 4. magacubuguà 4. nauwi
“(fingers) kooak
down”
5. sol chepam 5. nyaki- 5. naganná 5. naganna- 5. hwipey
vampai tejueg tejuep=“one
ignimel= hand”
“una mano
entera”[334]
6. m’sig- 6. ic̲h̲kyum- 6. kamioec
eleepai kabiak kawam=
“two three”
[334] “De este número en adelante los mas incultos se confunden y no
saben decir mas que: muchos y muchísimos; pero los que tienen algun
ingenio siguen la numeracion diciendo: una mano y uno, una mano y dos,
etc. Para espresar diez, dicen: _Naganná ignimbal demuejueg_, esto es,
todas las manos: para quince dicen las manos y un pié, y para veinte
las manos y los piés, cuyo número es el término de la aritmética
cochimí. Los que han aprendido el español saben nuestro modo de contar.”
“From this number onward the most ignorant are confused and are only
able to say many and very many; but those who have some ingenuity
continue the numeration by saying one hand and one, one hand and
two, etc. To express ten they say, _naganná ignimbal demuejueg_,
that is, all the hands; for fifteen they say the hands and a foot,
and for twenty the hands and the feet, at which number ends the
Cochimi arithmetic. Those who have learned Spanish know our method of
counting.” (Clavigero, Historia, etc., p. 22.)
In this citation Padre Clavigero succinctly portrays the cumbersome
number series of the Cochimi and other Amerinds of the Californian
peninsula. Moreover, the Cochimi terms of Clavijero and those cited
from Hervas by Herr Buschmann seemingly suggest a common source of
information.
Ducrue (in Murr, Journal zur Kunstgeschichte, Nürnberg, 1787, vol. XII,
pp. 294) expresses doubt as to the _nauwi_ of the Laymon column, not
knowing whether it is Nahuatlan or vernacular to the Laymon language.
It certainly has an alien aspect. Of Laymonic number names Ducrue
says that the Laymon can count singly to five, and then they repeat
themselves.
The following citation may be of interest here:
“The Californians know very little of arithmetic, some of them being
unable to count further than _six_, while others can not number beyond
_three_, insomuch that none of them can say how many fingers he has.
They do not possess anything that is worth counting, and hence their
indifference. It is all the same to them whether the year has six or
twelve months, and the month three or thirty days, for every day is a
holiday with them. They care not whether they have one or two or twelve
children, or none at all, since twelve cause them no more expense or
trouble than one, and the inheritance is not lessened by a plurality of
heirs. Any number beyond six they express in their language by _much_,
leaving it to their confessor to make out whether that number amounts
to seven, seventy, or seven hundred.”—Jacob Baegert, in Smithsonian
Report, 1864, p. 388.
7. ẖooak- 7. chaquera-
eleepai vampai
8. ẖamiak- 8. nyaki-
eleepai vam-ivapai
9. m’sigk- 9. quac̲h̲eravampai
tkmat
10. chepam- 10. nyavanichaqui; 10. naganna-
mesig “no contamos mas iñimbal-
adelante.” demuejeg=
“all the
fingers”
11. mesigk-malha.
12. ẖooak-malha
15. naganna-
iñimbal-
demuejeg
agannapa=“all
fingers, foot”
20. chepamẖooak 20. naganna
agannapa-inimbal-
demuejeg=fingers,
toes, all”
30. chepamẖoomiak
40. chepam-misnok
50. mesig quinquedit-
sol-chepam
60. chepammesig
quinqueditmesigelepaip
70. chepam mesig
quinquedit
ẖooak-elepaip,
etc.
_Mohave_ (6) _Hualapai_ (10) _Tonto_ or _Gohun_ (2) _Diegueño_ (14)
1. aséentik sitik sisi, shiti khink
2. havik hovak uake óak
3. hamok hamok moke hamok
4. tchungbabk hobá hôba tchibabk
5. harabk hatábuk satabé selkhakai
6. siyinta tasbek geshbé niugushbai
7. viiga hoágeshbek hoageshbe niokhoak
8. muugá hamúgeshbek mogeshbe niokhamuk
9. paaya halathúig halseye nitchibab
10. aráabá vuáruk uave selghiamát
11. aséentik nitauk sitigiálaga uave-shiti niekhin
12. havik nitauk hovaktiálik uave-uake niekhvabgushbaib
20. ará-bavik- vavahovak uake-uave selghhoák
takavuts havík
30. arábavik- vavahamok moke-uave
takavuts-hamók
40. hōba-uave
50. satabe-uave