Vocabulary Lists of Serian Numerals

The following comparative table of Serial numerals represents all the accessible number-names in existing records of Serian linguistic material. M Pinart records two lists of number-names from “one” to “ten”, and says of the first list, “Quando se cuenta seguido”, for counting consecutively.

It will be of interest to note the fact that the forms of the digit “eight”, in the vocabularies of Professor McGee and Mr Bartlett, with the latter’s “eighteen”, differ wholly from the elements representing “eight” in their terms for “eighty”. The term employed by them is recorded by M Pinart in his second list and also by Sr Pimentel. Another peculiarity to be noted in the vocabulary of Mr Bartlett is the fact that for the numbers “thirteen” and “eighteen” he writes the same form. The latter is evidently miswritten, as the two are composed of identical elements. The explanation of this seems to be that in the former there is a subaudition of the element “ten”, and in the latter of the element “fifteen”.

It is equally instructive to mark the fact that the terms denoting “two, three, four, five” retain or preserve their fuller forms in their multiples, as in “twenty, thirty, forty, and fifty”.

The lists follow:

	McGee	Pinart		Bartlett	Pimentel (citing Tenochio)
1.	tó‘χun	tokχom tashsho	tohom	taso,	tujon
2.	ghá‘kom	kaχ´kum	kookχ´	kahom	kokjl, kujom
3.	pháum	p’χ´ao	kapχ´a	phraom	kupjtku
4.	sâ´hkūm	shoχ´kum	kshuχ´kŭă	scochhom	{kosojkl {kosojhl
5.	kwáetūm	kuaotom	kooχtom	huavat’hom	kouton
6.	náhpsūk	napshoχ´	imapkasho	napk’schoch	snapkashroj
7.	káhkwūū	kaχkχue	tomkaχkue	kachqhue	tomkujkcui
8.	páhkwūū	p’χakχue	kshoχolka	phraque	osrojoskum
9.	ksókhŭnt	soχanthe	ksovikanlχ´	sohántl	ksobbejoaul
10.	khóhnŭt^l	χonalχ´	kanlχ´	honachtl	taul
11.				tantasóque
12.				tanchltoque
13.				tanchtaphraqhue
14.				[tanchltascochhom][333]
15.				tanchlhuavat’hom
16.				tanchlischnapk’schoch
17.				tanchltumkachqhue
18.				tanchlphraqhue
19.				tanchlsóvihantlqhue
20.	ŭntçkō´k		kanlχ´kookχ´	eanslkoch	taul jaukl
30.	ŭntçkō´pka			eans’lkapka
40.	ŭntçksō´k			eans’lscoch
50.	ŭntçkóitum			eanslkovat’hom
60.	ŭntçěsnŭpkŭ´schōp			eansly’schnapk’schoch
70.	ŭntçtŭngŭ`kwŭ´k			eansltumkachqhue
80.	ŭ´ntçkuschohotkŭm			eanslhschoholchkom
90.	ŭntçksegŭnt			eanslsovikakt’l
100.	ŭntçgŭnt^l			hiantlkantl	taul taul
200.	ŭnz-ŭ´ntç-kō´k
300.	ŭnz-ŭntç-kŏ´pka
400.	ŭnz-ŭntç-kŭkschō´k
500.	ŭnz-ŭntç-kóitum
600.	ŭnz-ŭntç-ŭsnŭpkŭ´schos
700.	ŭnz-ŭntç-diŭnkwŭŭk
1000.	ŭnz-untç kŭ´nz