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• … fy a noun as part of the noun phrase. The numeral ‘one’ follows a noun in the singular and the numerals ‘two’ to ‘ten’ follow a noun in the plural, e.g. báarar fóoda ‘one child’ and barr-én hiŋká ‘two children’ respectively. An abbreviated form of ‘one’ serves as indefinite marker for newly introduced entities in discourse, e.g. surgoy fo (woman IND) ‘a certain woman’. The numerals from ‘two’ up can be used as nouns, too, without additional morphology when the referent is cle …

  Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 157

• 204 b) andǝ₌tǝ-dís aɣáy 2p₌FUT-let 1s aɣa₌m-d(á) ándi s(e) a-sǝstǝn 1s₌SUBJ-do 2p DAT SG-ask fóoda one will you (pl) allow me to ask you (pl) one question? Another verb which may be followed by a subjunctive complement clause is the verb ci ‘think, say’. When used with a dative complement this verb is translated as ‘say’ and is followed by a complement clause citing the speech act. Without a dative complement, it takes the more vague meaning of ‘thinking’. In this constructio …

  Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 222