rarissimum (or infrequentale?) 133: ‘eight’ as regular base for a numeral system
- Where found
- Pamean lgs, esp. Northern Pame (Otomanguean)
- Domain
- morphology: word formation
- Subdomain
- numeral systems: bases
- Keywords
- numeral
- Type
- rarissimum (or infrequentale?)
- Universals violated
- Source
- Avelino, Heriberto (2002). Diversity and unity of languages in the border of linguistic areas: Evidence from Pamean number systems. Paper at WSCLA 7, Edmonton, Alberta.
Pame numeral systems are not monobasic: other bases are ‘five’, ‘ten’, ‘twenty’.