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Edman274
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The architecture of “not bad”: Decoding the Chines...
Are there any languages in existence that lack a facility for counting numbers, to your knowledge?
rramadass
7 months ago
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"idiotsecant" is clueless but according to Daniel Everett's studies/research the
Pirahã
language lacks a proper numeral system -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirah%C3%A3_language#Numerals_...
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