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Re: measuring systems (was: Selenites)

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 29, 1998, 0:43
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998 17:06:54 -0700 Matt Pearson <mpearson@...>
writes:
>Carlos Thompson wrote: > >> How many other proposals for naming/representing numbers are there >in >> conlangs? >> >> Notations for 56 like >> fifty-six >> fifty and six >> six and fifty (like in German) >> five-ten-six >> sixty-minus-four >> four-to-sixty >> six and half-three-twenties (like Danish?)
In Rokbeigalmki it's somewhat similar to "fifty-six"....the normal word for "five" plus a mutated form of "ten", and then "six". _khamsa-der sejo_ /xamsa dE* sEdZo/ five-*tn six (ten normally is _drou_ /d*&u/ ) * = flapped R -Stephen (Steg) ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]