Cardinal numerals -human series

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... of centuries are specified by combining words for digits and decades with sbək'ʷačiʔ '100', making the Lushootseed numerals between 100 and 10,000 the equivalent of those used in spoken English for numbers (e.g., cəlac sbək'ʷačiʔ = five hundred, ʔulub ʔi kʷi x̌ ʷəl sbək'ʷačiʔ = nineteen hundred), although in Lushootseed -but not in English -this pattern is extended to the millennia (ʔulub sbək'ʷačiʔ 'one thousand' [lit. 'ten hundred']). 2 Lushootseed has a special human series of numerals used specifically for counting people, given in Table 2. With the exception of the words for one, two, and four people, this series is formed from the plain-series numerals by Type III (-V1C2-infixal) reduplication. 3 For numerals between 10 and 20 that combine the first decade with a digit, both numerals are taken from the In Northern Lushootseed, the human series of numerals is only used up to 20, after which plainseries numerals are used. ...