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Conlangery #30: Numeral Systems

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The Importance of Number Classifiers in Chinese

Some languages Mandarin in particular but I think some other languages that that Prochman do as well and all over all the way into like Bengali is an Indo-European language but it has developed number classifiers just because of who its neighbors are. So what what we're calling numeral classifiers in in if you've taken Chinese you may have heard them as measure words heard them called measure words they're basically depending on the noun there will be some intervening thing. It's actually people generally make it analogous with the classifiers used with English especially mass nouns But some other nouns like when you say a murder of crows in English for a cup of water that's actually literally the

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