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From: librik@netcom.com (David Librik)
Subject: Re: Eskimo numbers
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Date: Sat, 20 May 1995 11:41:35 GMT
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Rick Kephart <rmk@netaxs.com> writes:

>I'm looking for the how the numbers from 1 to 10 are pronounced or written 
>in Eskimo or Inuit

Schultz-Lorentzen's Grammar of the West Greenland Language gives:

atauseq		one
mardluk		two
pingasut	three
sisamat		four
tatdlimat	five
arfineq		six ("the other hand")
arfineq mardluk	seven
arfineq pingasut eight
arfineq sisamat / qulingiluat / qulailuat	nine
qulit		ten ("all the fingers")

This is an old-fashioned spelling system; I think they have changed it
somewhat.

Hope this helps.

- David Librik
librik@cs.Berkeley.edu
