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3.10.3.2.
Other cases denoted by postpositions |
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Examples
1. mp -n
ótù
k pì
 pá-là
he-nom tree-under sleep-pres
He sleeps under the tree
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2.
mp-n
kì
pónì-ná ckc-chò
he-nom house top from jump-past
He jumped from the top of the house
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3.11. Numerals : General remarks
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Lotha
has decimal numeral system. The basic cardinal numerals
from one to ten, twenty, fifty, hundred and thousand are
monomorphemic. The other numerals are derived from compounding
the basic cardinal numerals. |
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3.11.1.
Cardinals |
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| The basic cardinals are
as follows |
 khà/mótsà
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one
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| nì
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two
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th m
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three
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m |
four
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| mò
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five
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| trók
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six
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| tíyì |
seven
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| tzà
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eight
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| tkù
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nine
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| tárò
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ten
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| myúyù
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twenty
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| tñán
|
fifty
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| nzà
|
hundred
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| th |
thousand
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The
numbers eleven to nineteen are formed by compounding,
in which the first member would be the numberal expressing
‘ten’ and the second member would be any one of the cardinal
numberals, i.e. one to nine. The numeral for ‘ten’ is
tárò. Compound numerals from eleven to nineteen are as
follows :
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| Examples |
| tárò khà
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eleven
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| 10 + 1 |
11 |
| in the same way |
| tárò nì
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twelve
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| tárò thm
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thirteen
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| tárò m |
fourteen
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| tárò mò
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fifteen
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| tárò trók
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sixteen
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| tárò tíyì |
seventeen
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| tárò tzà
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eighteen
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| tárò tkù
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nineteen
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For
twenty one, thirty one etc., compounding is done by adding
the basic cardinals to the respective basic forms of twenty,
thirty etc. given below.
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| my£kyù
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twenty
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| th«$mrò
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thirty
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| z«Ürò
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forty
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| tiµán
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fifty
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| rókrò
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sixty
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Of
these numerals of multiples of tens, thirty, forty and
sixty are bimorphemic and are composed as 3 x 10, 4 x
10, 5 x 10, 6 x 10 respectively as given below. |
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