Re: Numbers

Barry Garcia wrote:
> táa
Woah, that's an interesting co-incidence, Watakassi' uses ta' (tá) for
"one"

Numbers, used as numbers, are un-inflected.  I suppose you could say
they function as articles.  Like adjectives, they follow the noun, so
"three women" would be "tiwwita'i sli'" (women three).

However, ORDINALS are handled by inflecting numbers like adjectives, so
"the third woman" would be "pita' tisli'", where _sli'_ (three) takes
the gender-prefix ti-; pita' represents twita', where t- is the gender
prefix and wita' the root, but _tw_ becomes _p_ (just as nw -> m, dw ->
b, pw -> p, bw -> b, and mw -> m)

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