Counting in Koasati

Language overview

Forty-two in Koasati The Koasati language (Kowassá:ti), also known as Coushatta, is the language of the Coushatta people, spoken in Allen Parish, north of Louisiana, and Livingston, Texas, by about 200 people. This endangered language (though language revitalization effort is in progress) belongs to the Muskogean family.

Due to lack of data, we can only count accurately up to 9,999 in Koasati. Please contact me if you can help me counting up from that limit.

Koasati numbers list

  • 1 – chaffaakan
  • 2 – toklon
  • 3 – totchiinan
  • 4 – ostaakan
  • 5 – chahappaakan
  • 6 – hannaalin
  • 7 – ontoklon
  • 8 – ontotchiinan
  • 9 – chakkaalin
  • 10 – pokkoolin
  • 11 – pokkol awah chaffaakan
  • 12 – pokkol awah toklon
  • 13 – pokkol awah totchiinan
  • 14 – pokkol awah ostaakan
  • 15 – pokkol awah chahappaakan
  • 16 – pokkol awah hannaalin
  • 17 – pokkol awah ontoklon
  • 18 – pokkol awah ontotchiinan
  • 19 – pokkol awah chakkaalin
  • 20 – poltoklon
  • 30 – poltotchiinan
  • 40 – polostaakan
  • 50 – polchahappaakan
  • 60 – polahannaalin
  • 70 – polontoklon
  • 80 – polontotchiinan
  • 90 – polchakkaalin
  • 100 – chokpi chaffaakan
  • 1,000 – chokpachoba chaffaakan

Koasati 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).

  • Numbers from zero to nine are specific words, namely ikson [0] (meaning none), chaffaakan [1], toklon [2], totchiinan [3], ostaakan [4], chahappaakan [5], hannaalin [6], ontoklon [7], ontotchiinan [8], and chakkaalin [9].
  • Tens are formed by prefixing the multiplier digit with pol-, except for ten: pokkoolin [10], poltoklon [20], poltotchiinan [30], polostaakan [40], polchahappaakan [50], polahannaalin [60], polontoklon [70], polontotchiinan [80], and polchakkaalin [90].
  • In compound numerals, the ten is put first, then the word awah, and the digit. In numbers from eleven to nineteen, the word for ten (pokkoolin) is contracted to pokkol (e.g.: pokkol awah chaffaakan [11], pokkol awah chahappaakan [15]). For other compound numerals, the word polo is added in between the word for the ten and the word awah (eg.: poltoklon polo awah chaffaakan [21]).
  • Hundreds are formed by setting the multiplier digit after the word for hundred (chokpi): chokpi chaffaakan [100], chokpi toklon [200], chokpi totchiinan [300], chokpi ostaakan [400], chokpi chahappaakan [500], chokpi hannaalin [600], chokpi ontoklon [700], chokpi ontotchiinan [800], and chokpi chakkaalin [900].
  • Thousands are formed by setting the multiplier after the word for thousand (chokpachoba): chokpachoba chaffaakan [1,000], chokpachoba toklon [2,000], chokpachoba totchiinan [3,000], chokpachoba ostaakan [4,000], chokpachoba chahappaakan [5,000], chokpachoba hannaalin [6,000], chokpachoba ontoklon [7,000], chokpachoba ontotchiinan [8,000], and chokpachoba chakkaalin [9,000].

Write a number in full in Koasati

Let’s move now to the practice of the numbering rules in Koasati. 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.

Books

Koasati Grammar Koasati Grammar
by , editors University of Nebraska Press (1991)
[Amazon.com Amazon.com]

Muskogean languages

Chickasaw, and Koasati.

Other supported languages

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