Borrowed numerals (was: Inuktitut (Canada))
| From: | Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, April 17, 2004, 20:54 |
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Danny Wier scripsit:
<<Being a purist in a lot of things, I wonder why a language would
borrow from
other languages for numbers less than a hundred! Swahili does borrow
'six',
'seven' and 'nine' from Arabic, but that's Swahili.>>
AFAIK, Komi uses Russian numerals for numbers higher than ten.
ObConlang: Ajami has plain Ibero-Romance numerals, but uses Arabic loans
for more specific concepts, like _taluto_ 'triade', _rub3o_ 'qurter of
hour' etc.
-- Yitzik
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