<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>I forgot about 2002:</DIV>
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<DIV>this is very simple - me too I would say:</DIV>
<DIV>mokst tatlum tukamonuk pe mokst (as the inquirer wrote)</DIV>
<DIV>or, using Gibbs' orthography:</DIV>
<DIV>mokst tahtlelum tukamonuk pee mokst<BR>but also:</DIV>
<DIV>mokst thousand pee mokst.</DIV>
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<DIV>Francisc weght.</DIV>
<DIV><BR>--- On <B>Fri, 9/5/08, Jeffrey Kopp <I><jeffreykopp@ATT.NET></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">From: Jeffrey Kopp <jeffreykopp@ATT.NET><BR>Subject: Years in Jargon<BR>To: CHINOOK@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG<BR>Date: Friday, September 5, 2008, 4:03 AM<BR><BR><PRE>Another "please translate" request, this one apparently from a college
student (harvard.edu email).
Thanks.
Jeff
>I am wondering if it is possible to translate into chinook language the
year 1986 & the year 2002. Can you help me with this task....
>
>If i do a direct translation, it seems a bit cumbersome....as in below:
>
>1986: tatlum tukamonuk (one thousand) – pe - kwaist ikt takamonuk (nine
hundred) – pe – stiekin tahtlelum (eighty) – pe – taghum (six)
>
>2002: mokst tatlum tukamonuk (two thousand) – pe – mokst (two)
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