It's a pity that Malagasy, the only AN language spoken close to Africa, has not preserved the reduplicated form.
 
Piotr
 
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Subject: [nostratic] Re: Afro-Austronesian numerals ?

--- In nostratic@......, "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@......> wrote:
> The PA reconstruction is *telu, and the Tagalog form derives from
reduplicated *ta-telu (originally used in counting human beings).
Same with *duSa, *da-duSa (> dalawa) 'two'.
>
> Piotr
>
>

*t-t-l? Half reduplication? Interesting. That would be one way to get
to *t-t- from *t-l-.

Torsten