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Numeral Bases
Language:
Mixtec (Chalcatongo)
Feature:
Numeral Bases
by
Bernard Comrie
Value:
Hybrid vigesimal-decimal
Examples
Sentence igt-2240:
okò šĩã́ʔũ kũṹ
okò
twenty
šĩã́ʔũ
kũṹ
35 (i.e. 20 + 15 + 4)
Sentence igt-2241:
uù šíkó ušì
uù
two
šíkó
twenty
ušì
ten
50’ (i.e. 2 x 20 + 10)
Sentence igt-2242:
uù sientó okò
uù
two
sientó
hundred
okò
twenty
220 (i.e. 2 x 100 + 20)
References
Macaulay 1996
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