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Show Comanche Counts Queerly, A peculiar fcaturo about tho Co-mancho Co-mancho language Is tho method ol counting. A Comancho will count up to ten In tho 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, G, 7, 8, 9, 10 method, but thero ho stops. He doesn't uso eleven, but Instead he .counts It as "ten and one moro," and so on, until ho reaches nlncteon, when ho pronounces nineteen. He .then pronounces twenty, but starts In with "twenty and ono moro" until he reaches twenty-nine, which ho counts itwenty-nlnc, then starts in with thirty, thir-ty, llko ho did twenty, and counts to thirty-nine, nnd so on all tho way up, Counting Is tho most difficult thing to earn in tho Comnncho language. In fact, by tho time a person has learned !o count In that languago ho has pret-. pret-. y well mastorod It. As thero Is no plphabet In the language tho only way to learn it Is by word of mouth. |