From: Hans Aberg (haberg@math.su.se)
Date: Sun Jun 24 2007 - 17:39:19 CDT
On 24 Jun 2007, at 16:56, Michael Maxwell wrote:
> You forget the Mayans :-). They developed a base-20 spoken and
> written representation system (see e.g. http://www.michielb.nl/maya/
> math.html). Modern Mayan languages (at least Tzeltal, with which I
> am familiar) still use the spoken base-20 system, although AFAIK
> the written system is no longer in use by the Maya themselves (as
> opposed to archaeologists).
Like the Danish and French.
Hans Aberg
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