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Re: Project 55 (was: I'm back)

From:Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 30, 2006, 20:15
Eric Christopherson girs'epset':


| Do you actually know some Chukchee? I know almost nothing about it,
| but for a while I've been fascinated by its numerals (found at http://
| zompist.com/asia.htm#chukchi ) -- two, three, and four seem to all be
| ngVrVq, which leads me to wonder what the synchronic and diachronic
| relations between the forms are.  Do you know?

All my info about Chukchee comes from the Internet:
- a rather extensive source (in English)
http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~spena/Chukchee/CHUKCHEE_HOMEPAGE.html
- some materials in Russian:
http://www.philology.ru/linguistics4/volodin-97.htm
http://www.philology.ru/linguistics4/volodin-skorik-97.htm

-- Yitzik

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