Assiniboine numbers

How to count in Assiniboine (Nakoda), a Siouan language spoken in Southern Saskatchewan in Canada and Montana in the USA

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Numeral	Cardinal	Ordinal
1	wąží	thokáhe
2	nųpa	įnųpa
3	yámni	įyámni
4	tópa	įtópa
5	záptą	įzáptą
6	šákpe	įšákpe
7	iyušna	įiyušna
8	šáknóğą	įšáknóğą
9	nąpcúwąka	įnąpcúwąka
10	wikcémna	įwikcémna
11	akéwąží	įɂakéwąží
12	akénųpa	įɂakénųpa
13	akéyámni	įɂakéyámni
14	akétópa	įɂakétópa
15	akézáptą	įɂakézáptą
16	akéšákpe	įɂakéšákpe
17	akéiyušna	įɂakéiyušna
18	akéšáknóğą	įɂakéšáknóğą
19	akénąpcúwąka	įɂakénąpcúwąka
20	wikcémna nųpa
21	wikcémna nųm sąm wąží, wikcémna nųm aké wąží
22	wikcémna nųm sąm nųpa, wikcémna nųm aké nųpa
23	wikcémna nųm sąm yámni, wikcémna nųm aké yámni
24	wikcémna nųm sąm tópa, wikcémna nųm aké tópa
25	wikcémna nųm sąm záptą, wikcémna nųm aké záptą
26	wikcémna nųm sąm šákpe, wikcémna nųm aké šákpe
27	wikcémna nųm sąm iyušna, wikcémna nųm aké iyušna
28	wikcémna nųm sąm šáknóğą, wikcémna nųm aké šáknóğą
29	wikcémna nųm sąm nąpcúwąka, wikcémna nųm aké nąpcúwąka
30	wikcémna yámni
40	wikcémna tópa
50	wikcémna záptą
60	wikcémna šákpe
70	wikcémna iyušna
80	wikcémna šáknóğą
90	wikcémna nąpcúwąka
100	opáwįğe
101	opáwįğe sąm wąží
110	opáwįğe sąm wikcémna
111	opáwįğe sąm akéwąží
120	opáwįğe sąm wikcémna nųpa
121	opáwįğe sąm wikcémna nųm sąm wąží, opáwįğe sąm wikcémna nųm aké wąží
123	opáwįğe sąm wikcémna nųm sąm yámni, opáwįğe sąm wikcémna nųm aké yámni
1,000	koktópawįğe
1,000,000	wówayathąka

Notes

The “teens” are formed by prefixing aké-, i.e. akéwąží ‘eleven’, akénųpa ‘twelve’ etc.
The decades are formed by the word wikcémna ‘ten’ followed by the appropriate cardinal number, e.g. wikcémna nųpa ‘twenty’, wikcémna yámni ‘thirty’, etc.
Numbers between decades are formed either by adding sąm ‘more, beyond’ to the decade term, followed by a cardinal number, e.g. wikcémna nųm sąm wąží ‘twenty-one’, or by adding aké to the decade term, followed by a cardinal number, e.g. wikcémna nųm aké wąží ‘twenty-one’. These two methods appear to be in free variation.
The numbers ‘two’ and ‘four’ are shortened to nųm and tóm, respectively, when followed by another element in a numeric compound, and may sometimes be shortened when they occur phrase finally.
Numbers beyond 100 are formed by the word opáwįğe followed by sąm and the unit or decade numbers.
Other than the word for ‘first’, which has the unique lexical term thokáhe, the ordinal numbers are formed by adding a prefix į- to the cardinal numbers, e.g. įnųpa ‘second’.

Source: Linda A. Cumberland: A Grammar of Assiniboine: A Siouan Language of the Nothern Plains. Indiana University, 2005.

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