QUANTITATIVE NUMERALS AND THEIR ANALOGUES IN RUSSIAN AND ABAZA LANGUAGES

Abstract

Analysis of scientific literature on the problems of comparative analysis of quantitative numerals of the Russian and Abaza shows that numerals in both languages are divided into two main categories by their meaning: quantitative and ordinal. Cardinal numbers in the compared languages represent the abstract number, or number of items. Unlike Russian Abaza uses a mixed system of counting, but the advantage still belongs to the twenty-digit system, which they wanted to replace with a ten-digit system, as in the Russian language, but all the attempts of scientists are not crowned with success. In both Russian and Abaza languages, numerical categories are divided into two main categories: quantitative and serial. Unlike Russian, the names of numerals from two to eleven in the Abaza are abbreviated when counting any objects (a person’s class or things).