Kansa

Language name and locationː Kansa, Oklahoma state, USA [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 坎萨语, 美国中南部俄克拉荷马州中北角

1. mí̜axči	21. léebla̜ nǫbá mí̜axči
2. nǫbá	22. léebla̜ nǫbá nǫba
3. yáabli̜	23. léebla̜ nǫbá yáabli̜
4. dóoba	24. léebla̜ nǫbá dóoba
5. sáatta̜	25. léebla̜ nǫbá sáatta̜
6. šáappe	26. léebla̜ nǫbá šáhpe
7. ppéeyǫba	27. léebla̜ nǫbá ppéeyǫba
8. ppéeyaabli̜ ~ kkíadóoba	28. léebla̜ nǫbá kkíadóoba
9. ša̜kka	29. léebla̜ nǫbá ša̜kka
10. léebla̜	30. léebla̜ yáabli̜
11. (léebla̜ ) alį mí̜axči	40. léebla̜ dóoba
12. (léebla̜ ) alį nǫbá	50. léebla̜ sáatta̜
13. (léebla̜ ) alį yáabli̜	60. léebla̜ šáppe
14. (léebla̜ ) alį dóoba	70. léebla̜ ppéeyǫba
15. (léebla̜ ) alį sáatta̜	80. léebla̜ kkíadóoba
16. (léebla̜ ) alį šáppe	90. léebla̜ ša̜kka
17. (léebla̜ ) alį ppéeyǫba	100. híi
18. (léebla̜ ) alį kkíadoóba	200. híi nǫba
19. (léebla̜ ) alį ša̜kka	1000. ža̜a̜ kkóoɡe
20. léebla̜ nǫbá	2000. ža̜a̜ kkóoɡe nǫba

Linguist providing data and dateː Prof. Robert Rankin, Department of Linguistics, University of Kansa, Lawrence, Kansa, USA, June 20, 1992, September 12., 2009.

提供资料的语言学家: Prof. Robert Rankin, 1992 年 6 月 20 日. 2009 年 9 月 15 日.

Other comments: Kansa or Kanze is recently extinct language, the last fluent speaker, Walter Kekahbah, died in 1983, in 1,700 ethnic population in north central Oklahoma.

Kansa and all Dhegiha Siouan languages use this partial quinary system in which 7 and 8 incorporate the words for 2 and 3. 8 has two forms, the second may be borrowed from Caddoan language. Either may be used alone or in compound numerals, but the latter one is slightly more common in Kansa. The term for 9 is shared with several Algonquian languages as well as other Siouan languages. Its original source is uncertain. The teens normally omit the word for ‘ten’ in colloquial speech. 1000 is literally ‘wooden box’. Silver dollars were shipped in wooden crates of 1000 each. Number one, wį is indef. article, wį́xči in counting. Number 4 Dorsey has doba in 1988's, my speaker ttóba.

3. Number 8, ppéyablį is native; kkíadóba is a loan from Wichita but is more
commonly used.

4. Number 9, šąkka borrowed back and forth between Siouan and Algonquian.

5. Teens ali ~ alį means ''sitting on''. éblą ''10'' is understood and seldom mentioned.

So teens are essentially additive. Also, decades and numerals.

6. Alternative term for 9 amašąkka means '' the other 9''.

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