Quickly give the answer: the words that define the numbers are constructed from only a few, similar

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Quickly give the answer: the words that define the numbers are constructed from only a few, similarly to how any number can be expressed by combining numbers from 0 to 9. Thus, for example, to name the number 93 used the following nine and three to form the word ninety-three. Simple and logical, right?
Anthropologists show reasonable agreement in most primitive cultures had only a few paragraphs, for example: a word to anyone, one for one, one for two, and one for more than two.
One of the reasons bungalow why they think so is that still are languages in which there is this curious situation. The best known case is that of the Warlpiri of Central Australia. In this video looks very eloquently.
But you do not go to the Australian outback to find evidence of this phenomenon: in many modern languages, the first numerals bungalow often have special features, which suggests an origin other than the numerals. We'll take a quick look at three European languages: Spanish, Portuguese and English.
In Spanish the number 1 has genus (one and one), but the others are neutral. In Portuguese, gender extends to 2, distinguishing between um and uma (one and one), dois and duas (two male and two female). In English all numbers have gender-neutral, and one serves both to one as for a: Numerals bungalow with and without gender
Another peculiarity: in Spanish (and indeed also in the other three languages analyzed) the root of paragraphs and sections also differs only in the first two cases. I mean seventh has the same root as seven, but first has the same root as one, and the second bungalow does not have the same root than two. In a table we will see more clearly: Ordinal with its roots
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The funny thing is that, in regard to linguistics, when a culture begins to count beyond three most often has been the decimal base, but there are cases of languages whose base is 20 with ten as internal division The five (with a where 25 is the number naturally superior), the twelve to one in which there is eight, because they have the gaps between the fingers, so I used to tease my father, saying that somewhere in the world had something bungalow to "simultaneously is and is not in their hands."
Moreover, in spite of our linguistic basis, there are still duodecimal metric systems (English, without going further) and even some coins Greece were divided in 64 parts, as the language of which I spoke above. It is clear that our abstraction can overcome our linguistic basis, and so I'm interested in reading a book which treats the topic thoroughly.
"We quickly with the answer: the words that define the numbers are constructed from only a few, similarly to how any number can be expressed by combining numbers from 0 to 9. Thus, for example, to name the number 93 used the following nine and three to form the word ninety-three. Simple and logical, right? "Well, do not think, the most logical is the Chinese and countries bungalow influenced by them. For example, 789 is said shí jiǔ bā bǎi qī literally "seven hundred eight nine ten o'clock." That's bungalow be direct and garlic.
Furthermore, bungalow our system is bundled because in reality, we now have to reverse when the old way. They note with the numbers 11 to 15, where "-ce" comes from "-decem", ie "to ten". This is noticeable when studying classical Greek, where the unit precedes the dozen or better still, German, which still says "Zweiundzwanzig" that is, "two twenty". As you know Dutch, you know what I mean.
But the greatest example of numerals is French liosos France itself, which is decimal up to 60, and from there begins to be sexag