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== Numbers == | == Numbers == | ||
Nahónda employs a base-10 system, although remnants of a base-20 system exist, as in ''tsentsatsa'' "twenty" (c.f. Minhast ''šentāz'' "twenty") and ''tsatsentatse'' "forty" (c.f. Minhast ''saššentāz'' "forty"). Siouan influence manifests again, from the numbers eleven through nineteen in the form of the prefix ''ak-'', e.g. ''aktsunó'' "eleven" and ''aktsané'' "twelve". The prefix is derived from the Lakota prefix ''aké-'' found in the numbers eleven and up, as in the Lakota numbers ''akéwaŋži'' "eleven", and ''akénuŋpa'' "twelve", both literally meaning "ten and one" and "ten and two", respectively. | |||
The accent shifted to ultimate position in virtually all numbers with the exceptions ''tsentsatsa'' and ''tsatsentatse''. These exceptions usually occur where the base-20 system of the proto-language surface. Ironically, in their Minhast cognates the last syllable is stressed due to vowel lengthening of the final closed syllables, i.e. ''šentāz'' /ʃɛn'ta:z/ and ''saššentāz'' /saʃ:ɛn'ta:z/. | |||
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