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Conlangery #30: Numeral Systems

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The Relationship Between Numbers and Culture

Linguistics has a chance to rub off relationships right 20 30 40 50 those are all obviously related to the that's a likelihood. I'm pretty sure Chinese had really high numbers a long time ago so well because they're bureaucratic cultureYeah but um you're right something and that's something else sort of a side issue dependent on your con culture there are human languages that have no numerals no quantifiers at all or no numerals at all The famous example that everybody brings up is pure ha yeahUm there may be others I'm not sure anyone or the count is so it's very small yeah very small system.

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