| morpheme
for gender or any adjective is present, it follows all of them. The
numeral can occur independently without the classifier if it immediately
follows a noun which does not have the adjectival morpheme for gender,
number added to it or does not have any other adjective to follow
it. |
| Example: |
b -sa-
juk-chikla-ku-nmy hug-
tha -ka |
| pron.pre.-child-female-young-class-two
field-in go-past |
| ‘Two young female
children went to the field.’ |
| 3.1.5.1. The number
system is a decimal system, having absolute forms for numbers from
one to ten. There are three more absolute forms for twenty, hundred
and thousand. All other numbers are derived from these basic numbers.
The classifier is added only to numbers from one to nineteen. The
word sunno ‘zero’ is borrowed from Bengali and does
not add a classifier. |
|
-ha
|
‘one’
|
|
-nµy
|
‘two’
|
|
-tham
|
‘three’
|
|
-brµy
|
‘four’
|
|
-ba
|
‘fie’
|
-dk
|
‘six’
|
|
-chini
|
‘seven’
|
|
-car
|
‘eight’
|
|
-caku
|
‘nine’
|
|
-ci
|
‘ten’
|
|
|
|
|
‘twenty’
|
|
ra cha
|
‘hundred’
|
|
hajar
|
‘thousand’
|
|
|
| 3.1.5.1.1. The morpheme
for ‘one’ has three alternates viz,. ca-sa-
cha, which are morphologically
conditioned. Their occurrence is conditioned by the preceding classifier. |
| Examples: |
|
cha
|
sa
|
ca
|
|
cap- cha
|
lam-sa
|
l p-
ca
|
|
kay- cha
|
khrk-sa
|
thay-
ca
|
|
|
| 3.1.5.1.2. The numbers
from 11-19 are formed by placing the morphemes for 1-9 after the morpheme
for ten, ci. In other words, when
a number is placed after c&i
it means that that number is added to ten. |
| Examples: |
kay- ci- cha
|
=
|
‘11’
|
kay- ci-ba
|
=
|
‘15’
|
kay- ci- cuku
|
=
|
‘19’
|
|
|
3.1.5.1.3. When a
number is placed after khlp ‘20’ it means that that number is added to twenty.
when a number is placed after khl, another morpheme for ‘twenty’, it
means that that number is multiplied by twenty. khl and khlp are not preceded by any classifier.
|
