Re: Numerals in Sohlob languages.
| From: | taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 23, 2006, 13:46 |
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* Benct Philip Jonsson said on 2006-03-23 11:18:58 +0100
> I'm mulling over whether I should expand on the multiples of
> twelve. According to "Describing Morphosyntax" the only
> known numerical bases in human languages are five, ten and
> twenty, for obvious reasons having to do with the number of
> digits humans possess.
So why have humans also counted in base (3) 6, (4) 8 and 12? (Hint, use the
space *between* the digits...)
t.
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