Show Comanche Counts Queerly A peculiar feature about the ComAnche Co-mAnche language is tho method ol counting A Comanche will count up to ten In the 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 method but there he stops He doesnt use eleven but Instead he ccunts it as ten and one more ando and-o on until ho reaches nineteen when ho pronounces nineteen He then pronounces twenty but starts In with twenty and one more until be reaches twenty nino which he counts itwentynlne then starts In with thirty thir-ty like ho did twenty and counts to thirtynine and so on all the way up Counting Is tho most difficult thing to earn in the Comanche language Intact In-tact by the time a person has learned to count In that language he has pretty pret-ty well mastered It As there Is no Alphabet In the language the only way to learn It is by word of mouth |