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Subject:CWY Lesson #33 Continue numbering system
Date:Thu, 22 Feb 2001 11:39:26 -0800
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Cherokee language lessons Home Page: Archive: Message #37 

Date: Jul 10 2000 15:26:25 EDT 
>From: "Cherokee language lessons" <botaylor@cherokeemuseum.org> 
Subject: CWY Lesson #33 
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CWY Lesson #33

Go-hi  i-ga  Gu-ye-gwo-ni  s-go-hi-ne  ta-li-ga-yv-l
hu-de-ti-yv-sa-di-sv-i.

Today I am going to continue with the Cherokee numbering system and we
will deal with the numbers 20-30.  What you will notice as you count from
20 - 30 is that you start with the base number of twenty (ta-l-s-go) and
you will add you will add a number from 1 to 9 as you count higher.

Twenty
ta-li-s-go-hi                   Formal
ta-l-s-go                       Conversational

Twenty-one
ta-li-s-go-hi   so-gwo          Formal
ta-l-s-go so-gw                 Conversational

Twenty-two
ta-li-s-go-hi   ta-li           Formal
ta-l-s-go ta-l                  Conversational

Twenty-three
ta-li-s-go-hi   tso-i           Formal
ta-l-s-go  tso                  Conversational

Twenty-four
ta-li-s-go-hi    nv-gi          Formal
ta-l-s-go nv-g                  Conversational

Twenty-five
ta-li-s-go-hi   hi-s-gi         Formal
ta-l-s-go  hi-s-g               Conversational

Twenty-six
ta-li-s-go-hi   su-da-li        Formal
ta-l-s-go  su-da-l              Conversational

Twenty-seven
ta-li-s-go-hi   ga-li-gwo-gi    Formal
ta-l-s-go ga-l-gwo-g            Conversational

Twenty-eight
ta-li-s-go-hi   tsa-ne-la       Formal
ta-l-s-go tsa-nel               Conversational

Twenty-nine
ta-li-s-go-hi so-ne-la          Formal
ta-l-s-go so-ne-l               Conversational

Thirty
Tso-i-s-go-hi                   Formal
Tso-o-s-go                      Conversational

Note: Every once and a while Cherokee has a quirk in the language and for
no apparent reason a change occurs.  Thirty is a classic example of this.
You might think that thirty should be pronounced (tso-s-go) instead of
(tso-o-sgo) and once you start counting again  the (tso-o-s-go) changes to
(tso-s-go). I will show you in tomorrow's lesson.

As we learn our numbers we will start incorporating them into everyday
conversation.


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