Re: Numbers from 1-10

Isidora Zamora wrote:
>
> I can't speak to any natural languages having severely restricted
numbering
> systems or not.
>
IIRC some of the Papuan languages don't go much above 5, except by such
stategies as five and one, five and two etc.  I worked briefly on an
Indonesian lg. of Flores that did the same; don't remember whether they had
separate words for 10, 100 etc-- probably borrowed if so.