Re: Historical Sound Change & Numbers Puzzle
| From: | Eugene Oh <un.doing@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 11, 2007, 8:12 |
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That's a really interesting number system you've got there, Joseph --
what made you decide to construct it this way? To put it another way,
wouldn't the language's speakers find it hard to count, since the
Fibonacci series isn't all that intuitive?
Eugene
2007/3/11, Joseph Fatula <joefatula@...>:
> Sanghyeon Seo wrote:
> > 2007/3/10, Joseph Fatula <joefatula@...>:
> >> Can you figure out how the ancestral number system worked?
> >
> > I tried, but I can't!
> >
> > I guess 5=si is from ancestral se, and 10=neru is from ancestral nelru.
> > Apart from that, I'm completely lost. Especially,
> >
> > 3=wec, 8=nel, 30=bornel, 50=borwec?
> >
> > Others, any idea?
> You've got the right ideas with 5 and 10 - take a look at Alex's response.
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