Counting in Keresan

Language overview

Forty-two in Keresan Keresan, or Keres, is a Native American language, spoken in New Mexico by the Keres Pueblo people, with seven Pueblos and as many dialects: the Cochiti Pueblo (Kotyit dialect), the San Felipe Pueblo (Katishtya dialect), the Kewa Pueblo (Kewa dialect), the Zia Pueblo (Tsiʼya dialect), the Santa Ana Pueblo (Tamaiya dialect), the Acoma Pueblo (Áakʼu dialect), and the Laguna Pueblo (Kawaika dialect). It is a language isolate family by itself, even though it can be separated in two dialect groups: the Western Keres (spoken by the Acoma and Laguna Pueblos), and the Eastern Keres, spoken by the rest of the Pueblos, and used on this page. The most geographically distant dialects (Acoma and Cochiti) are not mutually intelligible.

Due to lack of data, we can only count accurately up to 100 in Keresan. Please contact me if you can help me counting up from that limit.

Keresan numbers list

  • 1 – ísrkʼé
  • 2 – dyúuwʼée
  • 3 – chameʼée
  • 4 – dyáana
  • 5 – táamʼa
  • 6 – shʼísa
  • 7 – mʼáiʼdyàana
  • 8 – kukʼúmishu
  • 9 – máyúkʼu
  • 10 – kʼátsi
  • 11 – kʼátsi-írskʼá-dzidra
  • 12 – kʼátsi-dyú-dzidra
  • 13 – kʼátsi-chami-dzidra
  • 14 – kʼátsi-dyáana-dzidra
  • 15 – kʼátsi-táamʼa-dzidra
  • 16 – kʼátsi-shchʼísa-dzidra
  • 17 – kʼátsi-mʼáidyana-dzidra
  • 18 – kʼátsi-kukʼúmishu-dzidra
  • 19 – kʼátsi-máiyúkʼa-dzidra
  • 20 – dyúwa-kʼátsi
  • 30 – chamiya-kʼátsi
  • 40 – dyáanawa-kʼátsi
  • 50 – táamʼawa-kʼátsi
  • 60 – shchʼísawa-kʼátsi
  • 70 – mʼáidyanawa-kʼátsi
  • 80 – kukʼúmishuwa-kʼátsi
  • 90 – máiyúkʼuwa-kʼátsi
  • 100 – kʼádzawa-kʼátsi

Keresan numbering rules

Now that you’ve had a gist of the most useful numbers, let’s move to the writing rules for the tens, the compound numbers, and why not the hundreds, the thousands and beyond (if possible).

  • Digits from one to nine are rendered by specific words, namely ísrkʼé [1], dyúuwʼée [2], chameʼée [3], dyáana [4], táamʼa [5], shʼísa [6], mʼáiʼdyàana [7], kukʼúmishu [8], and máyúkʼu [9].
  • Tens are formed starting with the multiplier root suffixed with the multiplicative adverb wa or ya, then the word for ten (kʼátsi) linked with hyphens, except for ten: kʼátsi [10], dyúwa-kʼátsi [20], chamiya-kʼátsi [30], dyáanawa-kʼátsi [40], táamʼawa-kʼátsi [50], shchʼísawa-kʼátsi [60], mʼáidyanawa-kʼátsi [70], kukʼúmishuwa-kʼátsi [80], and máiyúkʼuwa-kʼátsi [90].
  • Compounds numbers are formed starting with the ten, then the unit root with some vocalic changes, and the word dzidra (which means more), linked with hyphens (e.g.: kʼátsi-mʼáidyana-dzidra [17], chamiya-kʼátsi-chami-dzidra [33], táamʼawa-kʼátsi-kukʼúmishu-dzidra [58]).
  • One hundred is kʼádzawa-kʼátsi [100], or litterally ten by ten.

Write a number in full in Keresan

Let’s move now to the practice of the numbering rules in Keresan. Will you guess how to write a number in full? Enter a number and try to write it down in your head, or maybe on a piece of paper, before displaying the result.

Isolate languages

Ainu, Basque, Burushaski, Keresan, Korean, Purépecha, and Tunica.

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