Re: my all-verb language

Roger Mills wrote:

>Henrik Theiling wrote:
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>>Trebor writes:
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>>>...
>>>chwe al kitabu ru tone yakoba savi
>>>...
>>>The numerals are as follows: wada 'one', dawa 'two', tuhi 'three',
>>>apa 'four', lima 'five', ani 'six', kaja 'seven', pala 'eight',
>>>siyam 'nine', tinza 'ten'
>>>...
>>>
>>>
>>The vocabulary seems a bit arabesque, right?
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>>I don't know much, but I noticed the following:
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>>  kitabu - kitab (from 'ktb')
>>  wada   - wahid
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>And dangerously close to Indonesian--  2-- dua, 4-- empat, 5-- lima !! 6--
>enem,  and _siyam_ or something very much like it is one of the
>reconstructed PAN forms for 'nine'.  In fact, just comparing the numbers, we
>might think that this language is also related to Kash............
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Is the 'dua' an import from IE(Sanskrit, perhaps)?  It just looks
somewhat - well, IE-ish(PIE *duwos, I believe).

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