Irina Rempt wrote:
> On Tue, 22 May 2001, Roger Mills wrote:
>
> > Just wondering-- is it a peculiarity of English (perhaps other Germanic?)
> > that we count thousands by hundreds? "nineteen hundred" "twenty-five
> > hundred"etc.??
>
> Dutch has it, but that's also Germanic, of course.
>
> Valdyan has it too; it doesn't even *have* a word for "thousand",
> it's _iranisin iran_ "hundreds ten".
Tokana is the same. One thousand is "tam kunma", or ten hundreds. The power
terms in Tokana are:
tam ten
kunma hundred (ten tens)
tolok ten thousand (one hundred hundreds)
Don't some east Asian languages work like this?
Matt