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Show Cominche Count Quierly, A peculiar feature about the Comanche Co-manche linguige It the method ol counting A Comanche will count up to ten In the 1,2 3 I, 5 C, 7, S 0, 10 method, but there ho atop lit doen t uio eleven, but Inttead he ccunlt It t ten and one more," and to nn, until ho reache nineteen when he pronounce nineteen lit then pronounce! twenty, but atari In with "twenty and one more' until be reichet twenty nine, which be count! twenty nine, Iben Karl In with thlr ty, like ho did twenty, and counta lc thirty nine, and to on all the way up Counting It Ihe mint difficult thing to letrn In the Comanche language In fact, by the time a pertnn ba learned to count In that language he haa prct ly -well mattered It Aa thero Ii nc alphabet In Iho language the only way lo learn It It by word of mouth |