Re: Other bases was Re: Numbers from 1-10
| From: | Peter Clark <peter-clark@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, August 30, 2003, 15:12 |
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On Saturday 30 August 2003 12:09 am, Tommie L Powell wrote:
> 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).
Google found a page on zompist.com (http://www.zompist.com/families.htm) that
lists the numeric systems of different languages and families, and mentions
that Northern Pame (a Oto-Manguean language) is consistantly base-8 as well.
Any more details on either Chinook or Pame?
:Peter
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