Re: Numbers from 1-10
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, August 30, 2003, 2:01 |
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En réponse à Isidora Zamora :
>And why is it that the numbering systems in French and Danish seem to be
>based on twenty to a certain extent?
I don't know for Danish, but some linguists say the partial base 20 in
French could be a substrate influence from Gaulish, a Celtic tongue (and
all Celtic tongues seem to count by twenties). But it's not much more than
a hypothesis (and some varieties of French spoken in other countries, like
in Belgium and Switzerland, are more purely base 10).
Christophe Grandsire.
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