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The Number Concept

CHAPTER VII
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itchangnerkr.
1000.

itchangner-park = great 100.
The meanings for 70, 80, 90, are not given by Father Petitot, but are of such a form that the significations seem to be what are given above.

Only a full acquaintance with the Tchiglit language would justify one in giving definite meanings to these words, or in asserting that an error had been made in the numerals.

But it is so remarkable and anomalous to find the decimal and vigesimal scales mingled in this manner that one involuntarily suspects either incompleteness of form, or an actual mistake.
TLINGIT.[359] 10.

djinkat = both hands?
20.


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