JOD's terrible 'teens'

[Bryan James Gordon]

I've run into this ki-edi form before too. A quick scan of Dorsey says no,
and if it'd been in your Grandma's lexicon you'd know that, so maybe it was
in Catherine's field tapes. Catherine?

2010/2/4 Mark J Awakuni-Swetland <mawakuni-swetland2 at unlnotes.unl.edu>

> Yesterday in a conversation with one of my UNL speakers, Grandma Delores
> Black recalled hearing her eldest grandmother counting to ten in the
> conventional way, then using the kki edi followed by a second number for the
> teens.
>
> gtheboN kki edi shoNkka => 10 kki edi 9
>
> with the kki edi variously glossed as 'also', 'and' or something similar.
>
> Grandma Delores recalled her mother using the current agthiNshoNkka form.
>
> I did not specifically ask about 12, since it has a non-agthiN pattern
> today
>
> shappe noNba
> six two
>
> I will try to elicit this set again from the other speakers with an eye
> towards what Grandma Delores described.
>
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> Uthixide
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> Sounds to me as if they didn't use '19' very often.  After all, we don't
> either except in dates from the 1900s.  They don't use glebaN agi shaNkka or
> something similar?
>
> I did a Siouan Conference paper back in the 80s (or maybe it was the 70s)
> on Siouan counting and tried to show that the words correlated with the
> signs for the numbers in the Plains Sign Language.  This was a partial
> quinary system of finger counting beginning with the little finger of the
> left hand and ending with the little finger of the right.  This explained
> why Dakotan for '9' is 'one in the palm'.  I don't know how the finger
> counting system would work above 10 however.  It would be interesting to
> find out.  I don't recall ever seeing the PSL signs for numerals in the
> teens.
>
> The 'nine' word itself is a bit of a mystery.  It's found in both Siouan
> and Algonquian as 'shankka' or the like.  Ives Goddard thinks it's Siouan
> originally but I've speculated that it's Algonquian originally.  Nobody
> wants to claim the little bastard.
>
> Bob
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: JOD's terrible 'teens'
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> Aloha All,
>
> I am working through Dorsey's numbers in the teens.
>
> He has several definitions for the base number that are not always all
> used on a number. For example:
>
> nineteen
>
> the other nine
>
> the extra nine
>
> again nine
>
> I was wondering what y'all might make of this.
>
> Mark
>
>
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