Re: Other bases was Re: Numbers from 1-10

In a message dated 8/30/2003 12:07:24 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
peter-clark@BETHEL.EDU writes:


>Just out of curiousity, are there any natlangs that are base-8?
I read about one somewhere. (Sorry for the lack of a reference -- it was
probably the same one in Oregeon or thereabouts that others have mentioned.)

My now-forgotten source explained that the speakers of this language did not
count _on_ their fingers, as many other cultures do.  Instead, they counted
using the spaces between their fingers -- hence, base eight.

Doug