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| Oblique arguments on the other hand are treated as adjuncts, and are thus bound to their clause with the connective clitic ''si=''. Context alone determines the semantic role of the oblique. Because obliques are considered adjuncts, they may not come between the core arguments and the verb, and therefore must appear either before or after the clause nucleus. To illustrate, the sentence ''Maska si=ohipna koykare ekán itá'' (anthill=CONN twig boy twist COP.PST), i.e. "The boy inserted the twig into the anthill", the noun ''maska'' (anthill) is the oblique argument and is marked with the clitic ''si='' to join it to the rest of the sentence, e.g. ''Ohipna koykare ekán itá si=maska''. | | Oblique arguments on the other hand are treated as adjuncts, and are thus bound to their clause with the connective clitic ''si=''. Context alone determines the semantic role of the oblique. Because obliques are considered adjuncts, they may not come between the core arguments and the verb, and therefore must appear either before or after the clause nucleus. To illustrate, the sentence ''Maska si=ohipna koykare ekán itá'' (anthill=CONN twig boy twist COP.PST), i.e. "The boy inserted the twig into the anthill", the noun ''maska'' (anthill) is the oblique argument and is marked with the clitic ''si='' to join it to the rest of the sentence, e.g. ''Ohipna koykare ekán itá si=maska''. |
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| The Nankôre number system is dozenal, i.e. base-12. The numbers thirteen through twenty-three are modified compounds consisting of the unit numbers ''shori'' (1) through ''shiktash'' (11) compounded to ''shin'' (12). The number twenty-four ''hanoshin'' can be analyzed as ''han-o-shin'', where the affix ''-o-'' signifies "multiplied by", so ''hanoshin'' literally means "two times twelve". The multiplicative pattern continues until the number 144, which is called ''nakpa''. The number 100 (''nenanoshin >> nena ān-o-shin'') is literally "four (and) eight times twelve". The ordinals for the numbers 1-7 are the cardinal numbers suffixed by ''-ak'' or ''-ok''. Numbers 8-11 are the cardinal numbers suffixed with the ending ''-u''. The ordinal for the number 12 is again suffixed with ''-ok'', and the higher numbers with ''-nok''. If the ''-nok'' affix is preceded by a consonant followed by ''-i-'', the ''-i-'' may be dropped, provided that this does not form the impermissible consonant cluster -CCC- sequence.
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| | Number
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| | Cardinal
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| | Ordinal
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| |-
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| | one
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| | shôri
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| | shoriak
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| |-
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| | two
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| | hani, ôhi
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| | hanyak
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| |-
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| | three
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| | tushta, tak
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| | tushtak
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| |-
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| | four
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| | nena, kayoka
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| | nenak
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| |-
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| | five
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| | shishak
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| | chatak
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| |-
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| | six
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| | shirisho
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| | shirshok
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| |-
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| | seven
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| | kerisho
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| | kirshok
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| |-
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| | eight
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| | ān
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| | anku
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| |-
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| | nine
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| | karu
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| | karku
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| |-
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| | ten
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| | kashe
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| | kashku
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| |-
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| | eleven
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| | shiktash
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| | shishtu
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| |-
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| | twelve
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| | shin
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| | shinok
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| |-
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| | thirteen
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| | shorshin
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| | shorshinok
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| |-
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| | fourteen
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| | hanshin
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| | hanshinok, hanshnok
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| |-
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| | fifteen
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| | tushin
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| | tushinok, tushnok
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| |-
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| | sixteen
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| | ninshin
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| | ninshinok, nishnok
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| |-
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| | seventeen
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| | chashin
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| | chashinok,chashnok
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| |-
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| | eighteen
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| | shirshin
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| | shirshinok, shirishnok
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| |-
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| | nineteen
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| | kirshin
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| | kirshinok, kirishnok
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| |-
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| | twenty
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| | anshin
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| | anshinok, ashnok
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| |-
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| | twenty-one
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| | karushin
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| | karushinok, karushnok
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| |-
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| | twenty-two
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| | kashmin
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| | kashminok
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| | twenty-three
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| | shikshin
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| | shikshinok
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| | twenty-four
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| | hanoshin
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| | hanoshinok,hanoshnok
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| -
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| | thirty-six
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| | tushtoshin
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| | tushtoshinok,tushtoshinok
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| | one hundred
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| | nenanoshin
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| | nenanoshinok, nenanoshnok
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| | one hundred forty-four
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| | nakpa
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| | nakpanok
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| tak orâshim kot "3 Orashim trees" = 3 hundred. An orashim tree is apporximately the length of 100 hand lengths (from heel of wrist to the tip of the longest, i.e. 3rd, finger). An orashim is also 100.
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