Friday, January 18, 2013

[vfpbhakf] One-syllable numbers

In what languages are all the digits 1 through 10 pronounced in one syllable?  Browsing Mark Rosenfelder's Numbers in over 5000 languages finds Persian and Hindi.  Others?

Inspired by the slight awkwardness of 7 being a two-syllable word in English, but needing to precisely signify a single moment in time as a dance count.

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