Can you complete the table of cardinal numbers, 1-10, in these related languages using a combination of logic, linguistic knowledge, and intuition? (See 'MORE INFO' below.)
Diacritics and suffixes are strong clues to identifying the language.
Larger numbers (N) may be constructed from smaller numbers (m) in this language set in one of a few different ways, one of which is notably unusual in world languages:
N=5+m
N=m+1
N=2m N=2m-1
Comanche, Shoshone, and Mono are part of the Numic subfamily. The other languages are each in separate subfamilies with Nahuatl and Yaqui in the Southern Uto-Aztecan areal grouping.
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