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Re: Odd thing.

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Wednesday, July 10, 2002, 20:01
Joe scripsit:

> I was looking at Finninsh for a while. As I was looking at the numbers, > something struck me. > > The numbers 1 and 2 are <yksi> and <kaksi> respectively. Now, the numbers 8 > and 9 are <kahdeksan> and <yhdeksan>. > > now, these, to me, look suspiciously indo-european.
Finno-Ugric (or is it Uralic) numbers are only reconstructible up to six. Everything above that is a borrowing from IE. -- John Cowan <jcowan@...> http://www.ccil.org/~cowan http://www.reutershealth.com Common Gaelic in Cyrillic script! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Celticonlang

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