April 24, 2007

Number systems of major languages and minor dialects

The title of this post is one, two, three in Wolof.

  • Senegal, Gambia? Wolof, where are thee?
  • Paging languagehat?
  • both Wolof and languagehat have left the building.
  • I loved this link so much. I think at least one of my kids is going to be a linguist.
  • Very neat!!!
  • Ooo only just saw this! Great link monkeybashi. And can I just say that Danish has the most randomly fecked up counting system evah? e.g. 51 = enoghalvtreds = 1 and (2½ times 20) Madness! And on a related note, this (YouTube) is very funny if you know any Danish at all ...
  • > 51 = enoghalvtreds = 1 and (2½ times 20) That's even worse than French