Winfried Lehman has proposed that Proto-Indo-European only had ten words of this kind, and the Kwetwores rule was first noticed in one of these words.
Winfried Lehman has proposed that Proto-Indo-European only had ten words of this kind, and the Kwetwores rule was first noticed in one of these words. The hieroglpyh "heh", consisting of a seated man with both of his arms raised, represented one of these words. In the Greek alphabet, an obsolete letter called Sampi was used to represent one of these words, while in Hebrew script these words are among those that are marked with Gershayim. The Piraha lanuage, spoken in Amazonia, appears to lack words of this kind, and is therefore being used to test the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis by seeing if Piraha speakers can perform arithmetic. FTP, give these words that can be ordinal or cardinal, and in English include words like "fifteen" and "negative five".
Winfried Lehman has proposed that Proto-Indo-European only had ten words of this kind, and the Kwetwores rule was first noticed in one of these words.
numbers [or numerals]