LL-L "Numerals" 2005.02.22 (06) [E]

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From:  burgdal32admin <burgdal32 at pandora.be>
Subject: Numerals


Hello Lowlanders, especially the anthropologists and other people interested
in counting systems, ( if I would dare call you “numerologists” or “numbers
men”, I’d probably be drummed out of this illustrious e-gathering).  Many of
you have made very interesting contributions to the ways of counting by Indo
European peoples. This really tickled my interest. So I have a question for
you: Given the great probability that the earliest modern people who left
Africa could count as well as speak, is there anything known, or is anybody
working on the origin or dissemination of the ways of counting going back to
an original source, as it has been done on languages following the genetic
trail of man? If so, who published and where?. Jacqueline Bungenberg de Jong

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