+-----------------------+-------------+--------------+--------------+ | | One. | Two. | Three. | +-----------------------+-------------+--------------+--------------+ |Animate. |menok |maalok |yutuk | |Round. |menskam |masem |yutqsem | |Long. |ments'ak |mats'ak |yututs'ak | |Flat. |menaqsa |matlqsa |yutqsa | |Day. |op'enequls |matlp'enequls |yutqp'enequls | |Fathom. |op'enkh |matlp'enkh |yutqp'enkh | |Grouped together. |---- |matloutl |yutoutl | |Groups of objects. |nemtsmots'utl|matltsmots'utl|yutqtsmots'utl| |Filled cup. |menqtlala |matl'aqtlala |yutqtlala | |Empty cup. |menqtla |matl'aqtla |yutqtla | |Full box. |menskamala |masemala |yutqsemala | |Empty box. |menskam |masem |yutqsem | |Loaded canoe. |mentsake |mats'ake |yututs'ake | |Canoe with crew. |ments'akis |mats'akla |yututs'akla | |Together on beach. |---- |maalis |---- | |Together in house, etc.|---- |maalitl |---- | +-----------------------+-------------+--------------+--------------+ Variation in numeral forms such as is exhibited in the above tables is not confined to any one quarter of the globe; but it is more universal among the British Columbian Indians than among any other race, and it is a more characteristic linguistic peculiarity of this than of any other region, either in the Old World or in the New. It was to some extent employed by the Aztecs,[142] and its use is current among the Japanese; in whose language Crawfurd finds fourteen different classes of numerals "without exhausting the list."[143] In examining the numerals of different languages it will be found that the tens of any ordinary decimal scale are formed in the same manner as in English. Twenty is simply 2 times 10; 30 is 3 times 10, and so on. The word "times" is, of course, not expressed, any more than in English; but the expressions briefly are, 2 tens, 3 tens, etc. But a singular exception to this method is presented by the Hebrew, and other of the Semitic languages. In Hebrew the word for 20 is the plural of the word for 10; and 30, 40, 50, etc. to 90 are plurals of 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. These numerals are as follows:[144] 10, eser, 20, eserim, 3, shalosh, 30, shaloshim, 4, arba, 40, arbaim, 5, chamesh, 50, chamishshim, 6, shesh, 60, sheshshim, 7, sheba, 70, shibim, 8, shemoneh 80, shemonim, 9, tesha, 90, tishim.