Re: measuring systems (was: Selenites)
| From: | Matt Pearson <mpearson@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 29, 1998, 0:06 |
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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?)
56 in Tokana would be "ihtapakianta", or "six-on-fifty" ("ihtah" =
"six", "pa-" related to "pama", meaning
"top", and "kianta" = "fifty").
Matt.