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Number systems Many European languages, though they use base 10, have special words for some or all of the numbers from 11 to 19 French uses a mix of base 10 and 20: quatre-vingt-dix-neuf = 99. (But nonante-neuf = 99 in Swiss French!) German puts the units first: neunundneunzig = 99 Danish counts in multiples of 20 (and puts the units first). So 99 is ‘9 plus 4-and-a-half times 20’ Huli uses base 15. So 99 is ‘6 times 15 plus 9 of the next 15’ In Ndom, 99 is ‘(36 × 2) and 18 and 6 and 3’ Old Welsh: 99 is ‘4 plus (5 and 10) plus 4 times 20’ Tongan just uses the digits: 99 is ‘hiva hiva’
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Linguistics at Corpus
Techniques and StrategiesNeil Sheldon
You have to work out who lives at A, B, C, D, E from the information given below.
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Number systems Many European languages, though they use base 10, have
special words for some or all of the numbers from 11 to 19 French uses a mix of base 10 and 20: quatre-vingt-dix-neuf
= 99. (But nonante-neuf = 99 in Swiss French!) German puts the units first: neunundneunzig = 99 Danish counts in multiples of 20 (and puts the units first).
So 99 is ‘9 plus 4-and-a-half times 20’ Huli uses base 15. So 99 is ‘6 times 15 plus 9 of the next
15’ In Ndom, 99 is ‘(36 × 2) and 18 and 6 and 3’ Old Welsh: 99 is ‘4 plus (5 and 10) plus 4 times 20’ Tongan just uses the digits: 99 is ‘hiva hiva’ http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/~ts/language/number.html
Number systems
eleven plus two = twelve plus oneeleven plus two twelve plus oneIs that just a happy coincidence?It stems from the etymology of twelve and eleven.eleven = left one, twelve = two left, where ‘left’ means left over from ten
is an anagram of
Umbu-Ungu numbers
Umbu-Ungu numbers
Umbu-Ungu numbers
talu, telu, yepoko = 1, 2, 3 in some order?
so yepoko is not 1
Umbu-Ungu numbers
telu = 1talu = 2yepoko = 3nga means –4
rurepo = 12malapu = 16tokapu = 24alapu = 28polangipu = 32
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Basque
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Catalan plurals
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