Re: Other bases was Re: Numbers from 1-10
| From: | Tommie L Powell <tommiepowell@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, August 30, 2003, 5:19 |
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Peter Clark wrote:
Just out of curiousity, are there any natlangs that are base-8?
Nik Taylor replied:
I've heard of one spoken by a tribe in, IIRC, Oregon.
I (Tommie Powell) respond:
That's right, the Chinooks. It was also in the Chinook/Nootkan/Salish
trade language used in most of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia
for hundreds of years before European traders came and corrupted it.
And it's the sort of base-8 system that Peter uses (1-8, not 0-7).
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