Re: Numbers from 1-10
| From: | Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, August 31, 2003, 23:01 |
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--- Andrew Patterson <endipatterson@...>
wrote:
> 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.
It's not at all hard to count in twelves (dozens)
in English. Same for scores. When I have need to
count out a lot of things, I will do just that to
break up the monotony of counting in the usual
tens.
Writing out numeric figures is a bit harder, cos
you'd have to remember that 13 isn't
XXXXXXXXXXXXX but XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.
Padraic.
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