rarum 26

rarum 26: ‘four’ as a regular base for a numeral system

Where found

Nyali (aka Huku, Bantu, Niger-Congo), Afudu (affiliation?, Africa); Hawaiian (originally; Polynesian, Austronesian); Welsh (Celtic, IE) (?)

Domain

morphology: word formation

Subdomain

numeral systems: bases

Keywords

Type

rarum

Universals violated

none

Source

Gvozdanovic, Jadranka (1999). Types of numeral changes. In Jadranka Gvozdanovic (ed.), Numeral Types and Changes Worldwide, 95-112. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Justus, Carol (1999). ???. In Jadranka Gvozdanovic (ed.), Numeral Types and Changes Worldwide, 95-112. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Elbert, Samuel H. & Mary Kawena Pukui (1977). Hawaiian Grammar. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press; pp. 161-162
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