Re: Unilang report

At 9:01 pm -0400 20/5/01, Oskar Gudlaugsson wrote:
[snip]
>
>The numerals function pretty much as in Chinese, Japanese, or, if I
>remember an old post of Raymond Brown's correctly, as in Welsh, and
>probably lots of other langs:
>
>11 = '10' '1'
>20 = '2' '10'
>99 = '9' '10' '9'
Small point - in modern Welsh 11 = '1' '10' '1' = un deg un  :)

In case anyone is wondering, Welsh has _two_ system for numbers:
traditional (counting in 20s) and modern (decimal).  The modern is now used
almost universally except when telling the time or giving one's age up to
about 30, after which the modern is generally used (because it's easier).

Ray.

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