Re: Numbers

raccoon@elknet.net writes:
>This isn't conlangish, but an interesting thing I learned about a natlang,
>Gaelic (the Scottish variety at least). A friend of mine told me that
>Gaelic
>speakers usually say the names of years in English if the Gaelic version
>is
>long. However, they say <da` mhil> (or something like that, not sure of
>the
>exact spelling) for 2000 because it's so short :) They also often give the
>days of the week in English.
Interesting. I could see the Saalangal doing the same thing, if they were
ever colonized by a nation who had shorter ways to say large numbers :). I
know that in the Philippines, Spanish numerals and Tagalog numerals are
used a lot (IIRC, the Tagalog ones are used when doing bargaining, etc.,
and the spanish ones are used for other purposes. Often they are mixed).

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