Emery County Progress | 1906-02-17 | Page 2 | Comanche Counts Queerly

comanche counts queerly A peculiar feature about the comanche language Is the method ol 01 counting A comanche will count up ur to ten in the 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 method but there he stopa stops lie he doesn t use eleven but instead he counts it as ten and one more ire and so on until he reaches nineteen when he pronounces nineteen he then pronounces uric es twenty but starts in with twenty and one more until he reaches twenty nine which he counts twenty nine then starts in with thir ty like he did twenty and counts to thirty nine and so on all the way up counting Is the most difficult thing to learn in the comanche language in fact by the time a person has learned to count in that language he has pret ty well mastered it As there Is no alphabet in the language the only way to learn it Is by word of mouth