Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Counting on just your fingers is for amateurs

The World Atlas of Language Structures

After a rousing discussion on linguistic typology, I decided to look up more information on the subject. I got a bit side-tracked when I found this website. While reading through the articles I came across this one on numeral systems. It has some interesting stuff in it, but definitely read the part about Kobon and the extended body-part system. It's pretty brilliant.

1 comment:

Mai-Anh said...

Kind of funny that I just remembered to check your non-travel blog today, as this week my classes have been learning their numbers, and Mandarin is the first example up there. :D