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kalatháin talôun, kalatháin takhù ‘1 chair’; lephmaɁ tazáun, lephmaɁ takhù ‘1 ticket’.
Otherwise also, some nouns appear with more than one classifier of type 1:
mìbà hnayauɁ, mìbà hnapâ ‘2 parents’; shín hnakáun, shín hnasî, shín tašîn ‘2 elephants’.
In some cases nouns which are counted by means of type 2 classifiers are also counted by means of type 1 classifiers:
Ɂéin taɁéin, Ɂéin talôun, Ɂéin tasháun, Ɂéin takhù ‘1 house’; tô tadô, tô takhù ‘1 forest’.
