Re: "The" and possessives
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 24, 2001, 5:05 |
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J Matthew Pearson wrote:
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> Don't some east Asian languages work like this?
Not sure, but Japanese goes by *fours*.
Ten: Juu
Hundred: Hyaku
Thousand: Sen
Ten thousand: Man
Hundred million (10^8): Oku
Trillion (10^12): Chou
Ten Quadrillion (10^16): Kei
And so on
Uatakassí has no words larger than 144. 12^3 would simply be Nadú
sakiáa (12 gross), 12^4 would be sakiáa sakiáa
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