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Thread #11483   Message #2553233
Posted By: Jack Campin
30-Jan-09 - 05:18 PM
Thread Name: Yan Tan Tethera - more words in the count?
Subject: RE: Yan Tan Tethera - more words in the count?
The Celtic base-20 number system was also used in Gaulish and was adopted from that into French.

Gaelic counts in 20s too. I don't think there's any Celtic language that didn't use base-20 in some way. Some Teutonic languages (English, Danish) have irregular formations for 11-19 but they don't count in 20s beyond that.

Burushaski? geezabrek. Have you looked at Burushaski syntax? Not bloody likely.