Historical Sound Change & Numbers Puzzle
| From: | Joseph Fatula <joefatula@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, March 10, 2007, 13:49 |
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For those of you interested in language change over time, here's a
descendant version of the interlinear I posted a few days ago:
http://www.geocities.com/altyaltynalma/northwindandsun_nfolk.html
And the original for comparison:
http://www.geocities.com/altyaltynalma/northwindandsun_gn.html
So if you've figured out how the one descends from the other (not too
complicated), here's a puzzle for you. The following numbers are in the
descendant language. They make a fairly standard base-10 number
system. Can you figure out how the ancestral number system worked?
1 - ba
2 - ru
3 - wec
4 - wepa
5 - si
6 - seba
7 - seru
8 - nel
9 - nelba
10 - neru
20 - ceseru
30 - bornel
40 - mospa
50 - borwec
60 - consi
70 - contef
80 - condor
90 - yuca
100 - yushnel
1000 - shnew
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