Re: "The" and possessives
| From: | Douglas Koller, Latin & French <latinfrench@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 23, 2001, 17:03 |
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Matt wrote:
>Tokana is the same. One thousand is "tam kunma", or ten hundreds. The power
>terms in Tokana are:
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> tam ten
> kunma hundred (ten tens)
> tolok ten thousand (one hundred hundreds)
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>Don't some east Asian languages work like this?
I can only speak for Chinese and Japanese, where it's:
ten (shi2)
hundred (bai3)
thousand (qian1)
ten thousand (wan4)
ten ten thousand (shi2wan4) (100,000)
hundred ten thousand (bai3wan4) (a million)
thousand ten thousand (qian1wan4) (ten million)
ten thousand ten thousand (yi4) (100 million, reference changes from
"wan" to "yi")
ten yi4 (a billion)
when you get to 10,000 yi4, it's called a jing1 (a trillion)
what you get at 10,000 jing4 pushes the knowledge of even the natives.
Kou
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