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The Number Concept

CHAPTER IV
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The last seem to be composed with _anon_, hand."[139] The first ten numerals of each of these classes is given in the following table: +----+---------+---------+---------+----------+------------+-------------+-------------+ |No.

|Counting | Flat | Round | Men | Long | Canoes | Measures | | | | Objects | Objects | | Objects | | | +----+---------+---------+---------+----------+------------+-------------+-------------+ | 1 |gyak gak |g'erel |k'al |k'awutskan|k'amaet |k'al | | | 2 |t'epqat |t'epqat |goupel |t'epqadal |gaopskan |g'alp[=e]eltk|gulbel | | 3 |guant |guant |gutle |gulal |galtskan |galtskantk |guleont | | 4 |tqalpq |tqalpq |tqalpq |tqalpqdal |tqaapskan |tqalpqsk |tqalpqalont | | 5 |kct[=o]nc|kct[=o]nc|kct[=o]nc|kcenecal |k'etoentskan|kct[=o]onsk |kctonsilont | | 6 |k'alt |k'alt |k'alt |k'aldal |k'aoltskan |k'altk |k'aldelont | | 7 |t'epqalt |t'epqalt |t'epqalt |t'epqaldal|t'epqaltskan|t'epqaltk |t'epqaldelont| | 8 |guandalt |yuktalt |yuktalt |yuktleadal|ek'tlaedskan|yuktaltk |yuktaldelont | | 9 |kctemac |kctemac |kctemac |kctemacal |kctemaestkan|kctemack |kctemasilont | |10 |gy'ap |gy'ap |kp[=e]el |kpal |kp[=e]etskan|gy'apsk |kpeont | +----+---------+---------+---------+----------+------------+-------------+-------------+ Remarkable as this list may appear, it is by no means as extensive as that derived from many of the other British Columbian tribes.

The numerals of the Shushwap, Stlatlumh, Okanaken, and other languages of this region exist in several different forms, and can also be modified by any of the innumerable suffixes of these tongues.[140] To illustrate the almost illimitable number of sets that may be formed, a table is given of "a few classes, taken from the Heiltsuk dialect.[141] It appears from these examples that the number of classes is unlimited." +-----------------------+-------------+--------------+--------------+ | | One.

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