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Re: Numbers from 1-10

From:Ian Spackman <ianspackman@...>
Date:Sunday, August 31, 2003, 23:21
> >Peter Clark already posted something on this in "Other bases was Re: >Numbers from 1-10. > >http://www.zompist.com/families.htm > >Another good site is: >http://www3.aa.tufs.ac.jp/~P_aflang/TEXTS/oct98/decimal.html > >I would be interested to know if base twelve languages exist outside of >Africa. I suspect that proto-Germanic might have had because eleven and >twelve don't end in -teen. > >Andrew Patterson.
Now if someone finds a language in which the women count in base 20 but the men in base 21, I'll be truly amused. :) Ian