Numbers in Ch’ol

How to count in Ch’ol (Lakty’añ), a Cholan Mayan language spoken in Chiapas in southern Mexico.

Ch’ol numbers change depending on what you are counting. The numbers 1-11 have the following roots: 1 jun, 2 cha’, 3 ux, 4 chän, 5 jo’, 6 wäc, 7 wuc, 8 waxäc, 9 bolon, 10 lujun, and 11 junlujun. Classifiers are added to these roots. For example, junlijc = 1 piece of fabric, cha’lujt = 2 ears of corn, uxp’al = 3 words, chäntyejc = 4 trees, jo’ts’ijt = 5 pens.

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Numeral	Cardinal numbers	Ordinal numbers
1	junp’ej	ñaxañ
2	cha’p’ej	i-cha’p’ej-lel
3	uxp’ej	y-uxp’ej-lel
4	chänp’ej	i-chämp’ej-lel
5	jo’p’ej
6	wäcp’ej
7	wucp’ej
8	waxäcp’ej
9	bolomp’ej
10	lujump’ej
11	junlujump’ej
12	lajchämp’ej
13	uxlujump’ej
14	chänlujump’ej
15	jo’lujump’ej
16	wäclujump’ej
17	wuclujump’ej
18	waxäclujump’ej
19	bolonlujump’ej
20	junk’al
21	jump’ej i chaäcäal
22	cha’p’ej i chaäcäal
23	uxp’ej i chaäcäal
24	chänp’ej i chaäcäal
25	jo’p’ej i chaäcäal
26	wäcp’ej i chaäcäal
27	wucp’ej i chaäcäal
28	waxäcp’ej i chaäcäal
29	bolomp’ej i chaäcäal
30	lujump’ej i cha’c’al
40	cha’c’al
50	lujump’ej i yuxc’al
60	uxc’al
70	lujump’ej i chänc’al
80	chänc’al
90	lujump’ej i jo’c’al
100	jo’c’al
200	lujunc’al
300	jo’lujunc’al
400	jumbasc’
500	jumbasc’ yic’ot jo’c’al
600	lujunc’al i cha’bajc’
700	jo’lujunc’al i cha’bajc’
800	cha’bajc’
900	jo’c’al i yuxbajc’
1 000	lujunc’al i yuxbajc’
1 200	yuxbajc’
2 000	jo’bajc’
8 000	junpic

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Hear some numbers in Ch’ol:

Sources

https://www.languagesandnumbers.com/how-to-count-in-chol/en/ctu/
https://numeros.es/numeros-en-ch-ol
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-grammar-of-Chol-a-Mayan-language-Alvarez-Jesús

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