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

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).

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