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Re: base-20 (was Re: Numbers from 1 to 12 in Ayeri)

From:Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
Date:Saturday, August 21, 2004, 4:56
Trebor c'erda:
> Hmm... I wanted something exotic so I made Kosi base-20, but I don't really > know how such a system works. I know that there are separate lexemes for > the numbers one through twenty in base-20 languages (Kosi üs, ket, kom, > ner, öt, sab, het, kaes, kic, den, len, töl, tin, von, sihn, sen, ein, naem, > tuan), but not much else... Could someone please enlighten me?
Take a look at most any Mayan language... they're famous not just for the system itself, but also for the rigor with which they use it (up to the "100"s level and beyond, I think). ========================================================================= Thomas Wier "I find it useful to meet my subjects personally, Dept. of Linguistics because our secret police don't get it right University of Chicago half the time." -- octogenarian Sheikh Zayed of 1010 E. 59th Street Abu Dhabi, to a French reporter. Chicago, IL 60637