Re: [Fwd: dozenal and hexadecimal digits]

Nik Taylor wrote:

>Raymond Brown wrote:
>> (I still think it's superior to the decimal one
>
>Me too, which is why most of my conlangs use one.
As does one of my conlangs which doesn't have a name yet.

But since I'm not a big fan of things mathematical, and I love to make my
conlangs as different from European languages as possible, my preferred way
for
a conlang to count is: one, two, more than two.  This is what Telek does.

olka "be one, alone"
migonka "be two, both"
baliil "be more than two; be a group"

These words are, incidentally, the source of words relating to marriage and
family.  _Olkan_ is an unmarried person, _migonkan_ is a married couple,
_baliilin_ is a family (or other closely knit group).  The word _orkan_ is
often used for "spinster", an elderly bachelor, or "loner, hermit" in general.

Marcus