Numerals

Numeral adjectives in Sereer function syntactically like all other adjectives, but exhibit irregular inflection patterns. In addition to initial consonant alternations, numerals exhibit vowel alternations in different noun classes. Numerals take regular NC prefixes and initial consonant mutations, but show at most three different vowel configurations; one when used in isolation as a counting word, one when used with the person NC, and one for all (?) other NCs.

	Isolation	w/ person NC	w/ other NCs
1	leng	leng	-leng
2	ƭik	ɗik	-ƭak
3	tadik	daduk	-tadak
4	naxiq	naxuq	-naxaq / -naaq
5	ƥetik	ɓetuk	-ƥetak